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“If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.”

People Ifs Persons Done Helping Differences Hurt Talking Havens Angry Excuse Offense Forgiven Testimony Holding On

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.”

People Differences Pay Company Trouble Subjects Fund Getting Old Getting Older Demographics Insurance Companies Private Insurance

Author:Milton Friedman

“He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since him. I daresay that Muslims would say Muhammad was that character, but I think Jesus had a sort of 600-year start on him.”

Thinking World Years Made Character Jesus Differences Fascinating Muhammad

Author:Philip Pullman

“I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.”

People Way May Found Differences Normal Comforting Normal Family

Author:Andrew Solomon

“People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.”

People World War Differences Accepting Democratic Iraq Endless Around The World Afghanistan Good War Endless War

Author:Malalai Joya

“I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.”

People Thinking Matter Bigs Action Differences Vacuums

Author:Chip Giller

“A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity.”

Believe Differences Christianity Written Keys Islam Comparison Word Of God Imperatives Christianity And Islam

Author:Geert Wilders

“I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.”

Thinking Writing Art Differences Magic Draws Connected Links

Author:Alan Moore

“What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a poodle peeing on your leg? You let the Rottweiler finish.”

Humor Funny Differences Legs Poodles Rottweilers

Author:Frank Carson

“The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page I create a consistency, a voice that must sound really reliable; whereas in person I am free - obviously! - to sound every which way.”

Way Persons Sound Voice Differences Fronts Pages Consistency

Author:Vivian Gornick

“Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.”

Ifs Might Language Differences Reader Originals Interpretation Efficiency Ambiguity Filters Cultural Differences

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.”

I Can Whole Differences Chinese Betray Mexican Harvard Being Me Whole Family

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.”

Thinking Bigs Differences Figures Huge Lows Sells Reputation Winner Prize Nobel Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Winners

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.”

Ifs Humor Funny Differences Streets Wall Cancer Not Sure

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.”

Different Differences Path Teaching Yoga Sufism Different Paths

Author:Irina Tweedie

“There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.”

Seems Happens Differences Simple Flower Complexes Simplicity Burden Canada Mexico Butterfly Routes Migration Monarchs Hummingbirds Monarch Butterfly

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.”

Understanding Interest Differences Effort Genius Seeds Blogs Blogging Bloggers

Author:Lee Gutkind

“No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.”

Persons Doe Literature Differences Photography Mediums

Author:Bill Henson

“There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.”

Differences Mediums Limitation Inherent

Author:Bill Henson

“The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.”

Needs Reason Values Differences Successful Havens Design Prove Bunch Reason Why Designer Clients Prove It Good Design

Author:Jessica Hische

“There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.”

Thinking Has Beens Differences Fantasy Judging Prison Governors Disgrace

Author:Mary Beard

“There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.”

Thinking Way Mind Might Would Be Process Differences Boring Despite Mind Blowing Thought Process

Author:Matthew Carter

“Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.”

Self Sometimes Use Asks Differences Socialism Statements Ideology Limitation Propaganda Communist Commandments Coercion

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.”

People World Art Reason Moments Today Lasts Differences Simple Pay Forever Willing Shots World Today Collectors Art World

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.”

Important Differences Significant

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.”

Believe Humans Made Jobs Political Desire Politics Term Differences My Own Position Limits Congress Making A Difference Pledge Prestige Frailty Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.”

Should Firsts Book Seems Names Bits Differences My Own Novel Titles Editors Good Will

Author:Sefi Atta

“The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have to worry about sticking to an art description or working for a specific audience or project.”

Ifs Art Differences Worry Audience Projects Description

Author:Julie Dillon

“There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.”

Should Differences Ears Prose

Author:Cate Marvin

“I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.”

May Differences Talent Smart Good Writers

Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat

“The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.”

Writing Wells Helping Happens Winning Understanding Differences Team Advice Losing Things Happen Pushing Finding Yourself Push Yourself Best Advice Never Stop Learning Winning Losing Awesome Things

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.”

Ifs Art Care Language Differences Fiction Sentences Construction Non Fiction Artifice Art And Life

Author:Ethan Canin

“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.”

Way Feelings Problem Body Differences Quality Complexes Edges Relate Related Making A Difference Peculiar Recognizing Discomfort Implications Unclear Sensing

Author:Eugene Gendlin

“There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.”

“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”

Thinking Should Humans Important Different Courses Differences Brain Capacity Size Enormous Mice Human Brain Important Questions Vertebrates

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.”

People Knows Should Values Felt Differences Talent Fortunate Good People

Author:Bob Hartley

“The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.”

Feels Humans Differences Human Beings Comfortable Ice Coaching Making A Difference Staff

Author:Bob Hartley

“People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.”

“I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.”

Thinking Differences Opinion Strive Athlete Get Better

Author:Arian Foster

“There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.”

World Feels Writing Different Differences Musician Presentation

Author:Wesley Eisold

“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

Thinking Made Bigs Differences Huge Keys Grew Majors Grew Up Subtle Metals Minors

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Beautiful Differences Taste Summer Beats Seasons Remarkable Ingredients Vegetables Might Have Been Strawberries Fresh Ingredients

Author:William Katt

“I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other people, and that comes with its pros and cons. I've accepted this is the kind of person that I am, and this is the path I've chosen in life - and I'm stickin' with it.”

People Kind Persons Feelings Differences Path Accepted Meaningful Chosen Making A Difference Gratification Pros And Cons

Author:Steve Grand

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

People World Littles Made Young Differences This World Ambition My Ambition Puppeteer

Author:Jim Henson

“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.”

“I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Play Facts Happens Together Differences Watches Groups Musician Jazz Folks Score Shut Up Classical Music Improvising Classical Musicians

Author:Brian Eno

“I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.”

“You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.”

Ifs Doe Different Play Differences Wonderful Computer Guitar Machinery Transparent Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Different Music

Author:Brian Eno

“NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.”

Knows Trying Remember Black Differences White Color Majors Locals Programming Black And White Converting Nbc

Author:Jim Henson

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

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