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“Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.”

Differences Successful Making A Difference

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.”

Should Moments Differences I Realized Signatures

Author:Georges Braque

“Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.”

Men Force Differences Property Fingers Stomach Theft Pinching

Book:The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”

Sometimes Hard Differences History Smell

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”

Looks Guy Games Winning Realizing Differences Tough Baseball Bigger Twenties Luck Buddy Pitcher Nineteen

Author:Warren Spahn

“We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.”

People Art Book Differences Highest Sells Shoes Selling Publishing

Author:Michael Korda

“Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.”

Different Lying Differences Wit Amusement

Author:Madame de Stael

“Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Differences Imagine Highest About Yourself Projection

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.”

Giving Trying Made Ideas Happens Differences Steps Cases Justify Leap New Ideas Routes Filling Intuitive Filling In

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Theres a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.”

Heart Differences Listening

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.”

Self Seems Faith Spirituality Differences Doubt Ego Approach Enlightened Exposed Patches Concealed Readiness Confirmation

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.”

Hard Individual Differences Common Democracy Rich Core Variety Agreement Hard Core Individual Differences

Author:James Bryant Conant

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.”

Knows Different Differences Taste Capacity Temperament Digestion Different Tastes

Author:Ramakrishna

“There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.”

Eye Differences Mouths Noses Crooked Symmetry Portraiture

Author:Edouard Manet

“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.”

Mind Doe Lying Passion Differences Circumstances Civilization Hatred Institutions Passionate Civilized Savages Savagery

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.”

Differences Huge Obvious Cultural Differences

Author:David Cronenberg

“There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.”

Differences Victim Bullying Bully

Author:Lady Gaga

“I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.”

Want Differences Money Making Money Making A Difference

Author:Lady Gaga

“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?”

Ifs Asks Differences Lines Models Glasses Drawing Impression Compare Angle Glances

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.”

Years War Eye Differences Danger Years Ago Guilty Eras Parks Digital Popping Jurassic Park

Author:Steven Spielberg

“In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.”

People Thinking Looks Persons Matter Culture Differences Judging Taste Democratic Suggestions Threatening Offended Good And Bad Bad Taste

Author:Roger Scruton

“We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.”

Thinking Different Black Differences White Views Color Perception Black And White Puritan Different Views Bright Colors

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

People Writing Ideas Differences Bored Bores Daydreaming Creativity And Writing Bores You Being Bored

Author:Neil Gaiman

“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”

Sometimes Beautiful Differences Ocean Bottom Calm Glasses Rage Peaceful Consistent Good Life Contrast Godly Serene Fathom Stormy Godly Life

Book:From Ashes to Glory

Source: From Ashes to Glory

“The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.”

America Differences England Geography England And America

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.”

Moments Differences Impossible Approach Overcoming Convinced Dialogue Impossibility Constructive

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.”

People Artist Grows Differences Envy Circles Esteem Inequality Destructive Overwhelming Feeding Insignificant Emulate

Author:Alexander Theroux

“I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.”

Knows Differences Color Warm

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity

“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”

People Bigs Artist Differences Cases Ego Ordinary Ordinary People Big Ego

Author:Charles Atlas

“There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.”

Art Differences Invention Conclusion Art And Science Creativeness

Author:Josef Albers

“There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.”

Different Differences Views Enemy Approach Messages Opposition Loyal Troops Advocating Our Troops Different Views

Author:Scott McClellan

“Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.”

Change Differences Environment Figures Paint Subtle

Author:John Newman

“On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.”

Important States Differences United United States Majors Europe Financial Transactions

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”

People Knows Giving Trying Kind Has Beens Art Enough Artist Differences Fine Type Profession Not Sure Call Me Fine Arts Illustrators Fine Artists Best Art

Book:Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

Source: Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

“A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.”

Energy Differences Lines Movement Expression Graphic Repose Vertical Horizontal Deviate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.”

Knows Kind Age Time Differences Honesty Commodity Ruthless

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day.”

Differences Benefits Rewards Coffee Pennies Great Coffee Good Coffee

Author:Richard Wyckoff

“There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.”

War Matter Differences Clear Civilization Terrorism Meaningful Civil War Insurgency

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.”

People Ifs Wells Two Real Causes Differences Poverty Majors Overcoming Misery Population Corruption Aids Barriers Cycles Scourge Causes Of Poverty

Author:Peter Eigen

“The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.”

Made Facts Lying Differences Impossible Fame Folks Made It Spotlight Pedestal Pausing

Author:Michael Musto

“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”

World Feels Important Artist Sound Differences Sea Green Colour Attending

Author:Eric Maisel

“Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.”

World Differences Teacher Influence Excellence Strive Making A Difference Professors

Author:Curtis White

“For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.”

Trying Looks Black Differences White Murder Folks Jew Oppression Flags Nazi Confederate Confederate Flag

Author:Ken Page

“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.”

“There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.”

Bigs Differences Attention Recognition Grabbing

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”

Art Values Lost Differences Theory Art Is Analysis Butterfly Pins Meadows Fluttering Like A Butterfly

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

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