T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
“The difference between seeing the bottle half empty and half full is in the attitude of the viewer.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.”
“The difference between selfish people and generous people is like the difference between day and night.
While selfish people think about getting everything for themselves, take things for granted, and harm others by their greediness and non stop desires, generous people are the ones who keep this life going, they are generous with their time, money, health, knowledge, skills, and emotions, they are the sun that keeps life warm and thriving. Try to be one of the generous; and remember no one ever likes a selfish person.”
“The difference between Selling and Helping is just two letters.”
Source: Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)
“The difference between selling and sold is possession and ownership.”
Source: Customer-Driven Budgeting
“The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.”
“The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.”
“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”
Source: Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr
“The difference between she and I is me.”
“The difference between short-term benefits and long-term benefits are like building a nice office versus building a brand like Coca Cola.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”
“The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.”
Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel
“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
“The difference between some random toddler scribbling some crappy drawing and Leonardo da Vinci is that Leonardo has talent. Someone with no talent is not the same as someone with talent.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.”
Source: The Power
“The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.”
Source: Day by Day with Charles Swindoll
“The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.”
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the trading floor. He’d go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”
Source: The Diamond Age
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
“The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.”
Source: The Solution
“The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.”
“The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.”
“The difference between success and failure is that when you see barriers you bring about failure, and when you see possibilities you bring about success.”
“The difference between success and failure is work.”
“The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.”
“The difference between successful and unsuccesful man is not the lack of strength or knowledge, it's the lack of will power.”
Source: Adam Gottbetter investigates the validity of focus group method
“The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is how much value they attach to time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
“The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its back or five its high. Don't fuss with refrigerators every step oft he way. Keep the water and butter cold, and remember what a wise baker once said: The goal is pie.”
Source: A Commonplace Book of Pie
“The difference between supermind and Big Mind (if we take Big Mind to mean the state experience of nondual Suchness, or turiyatita) is that Big Mind can be experienced or recognized at virtually any lower level or rung. Magic to Integral. In fact, one can be at, say, the Pluralistic stage, and experience several core characteristics of the entire sequence of state-stages (gross to subtle to causal to Witnessing to Nondual), although, of course, the entire sequence, including nondual Suchness, will be interpreted in Pluralistic terms. This is unfortunate in many ways—interpreting Dharma in merely Pluralistic terms (or Mythic terms, or Rational, and so on)—because it is so ultimately reductionistic; but it happens all the time, given the relative independence of states and structures at 1st and 2nd tier.
Supermind, on the other hand, as a basic structure-rung (conjoined with nondual Suchness) can only be experienced once all the previous junior levels have emerged and developed, and as in all structure development, stages cannot be skipped. Therefore, unlike Big Mind, supermind can only be experienced after all 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-tier junior stages have been passed through. While, as Genpo Roshi has abundantly demonstrated, Big Mind state experience is available to virtually anybody at almost any age (and will be interpreted according to the View of their current stage), supermind is an extremely rare recognition. Supermind, as the highest structure-rung to date, has access to all previous structures, all the way back to Archaic—and the Archaic itself, of course, has transcended and included, and now embraces, every major structural evolution going all the way back to the Big Bang. (A human being literally enfolds and embraces all the major transformative unfoldings of the entire Kosmic history—strings to quarks to subatomic particles to atoms to molecules to cells, all the way through the Tree of Life up to its latest evolutionary emergent, the triune brain, the most complex structure in the known natural world.) Supermind, in any given individual, is experienced as a type of “omniscience”—the supermind, since it transcends and includes all of the previous structure-rungs, and inherently is conjoined with the highest nondual Suchness state, has a full and complete knowledge of all of the potentials in that person. It literally “knows all,” at least for the individual.”
Source: The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism
“The Difference Between Sympathy, Empathy and Compassion:
If someone was stuck in a quagmire:
Sympathy would be: sitting on the side, feeling sorry for them.
Empathy would be: getting into the quagmire with them, and trying to find a way out for both of you.
Compassion would be: keeping your own feet on solid ground and staying in a state of love while you reach out a hand or branch to help them to get out.”
“The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.”
“The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.”
“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.”
“The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.”
Source: The Collected Works
“The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.”
“The difference between the Alaxander (or Hitler) and their looser opponents is not the
blood or skin but the technology and the esteemed process they built. Yes, one would be kicked hard to learn from the others or upgrade on their own, for survival. Always upgrade yourself, until your last breath.”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.”
“The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.”
“The difference between the big budget films I've done is the length of time. But in terms of the day-to-day, you're still going on to set, you're getting into character, and you're going and doing your job, so there's absolutely no difference. It's just the structure around it and the length of time. But in terms of budget and money, it doesn't really manifest itself.”