Best differences & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.”

Firsts Difficult Differences Impossible Events Movement Objects Circumstances Constant Statements Data Perceive Relative Our Relationship Observers Initials Sensory Derivatives

Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Believe Persons Sometimes Action I Believe Differences Too Much Danger Periods Bravery Courageous Coward Frightened Fearful Cowardice Peril Cowardly Branded

Author:Gene Wolfe

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”

Firsts Has Beens Father Politics Differences Liberty Creative Economic Understood Equality Our Time Conformity Founding Freedom And Liberty Despotism Emancipation Our Founding Fathers Liberty And Equality

Author:Barry Goldwater

“Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.”

People Firsts States Problem Government Differences Vision Position Essentials Tired Clarity Acceptable Desirable Proposal Meddling Tinkering Clarity Of Vision

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.”

Firsts Night Fear Differences Sleep Fatigue Unbearable Bearable

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.”

Ifs Firsts Kind May Stills Soul School Differences Consciousness Degrees Possession Beast Immortal Elephants Wisest Concessions Slugs Immortal Soul

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Differences First Time Profound Scripts

Author:David Sedaris

“Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.”

Mind Firsts States Leadership Differences Leader Vision Clear Creating Dues Managers State Of Mind Being A Leader

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Want Should Firsts Motivational Waiting Differences Security Secure Making A Difference Wiser Fooled

Author:Ron Atchison

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.”

Needs Feels Firsts Different Born Differences Stronger Blessed Corruption Innocence Reaching Feel Better Nuance

Book:Gentleman's Agreement

Source: Gentleman's Agreement

“Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.”

World Firsts May Different Action Differences This World Greatness Fame Strive Significant Originality Daring Thoughts And Actions

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.”

Men Firsts Heart May Spirit Differences Monsters Despite Latter Clothings Inward Filling

Book:The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

Source: The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

“Texas Governor Rick Perry now says his wife has been encouraging him to run for President. Remember first he told us God told him to run; now his wife is telling him to run. Of course, the big difference; if you ignore what God says you don't have to hear about it until the afterlife. That's the only difference.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Bigs Running Remember Courses President Differences Wife Texas Afterlife Governors

Author:Jay Leno

“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”

“The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.”

Firsts May Two Country Government Differences Numbers Democracy Greater Citizens Latter Republic Spheres Small Numbers Delegation

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.”

Men Firsts Facts Understanding Differences Animal Latter

Author:Theophrastus

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he's #1 for the fifth week. It's incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They're not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn't like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. '3 a.m.' is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that's gonna mess with him until the day he dies.”

People Thinking Knows Years Firsts Has Beens Said Lasts Dies Differences Records Week Fans Listening Incredibles Albums Following Selling Mess Faithful Ems Followers Fifth Joints

Author:Tony Yayo

“The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.”

Firsts Looks Reality Past Artist Differences Vision Democrat Crafts Hopefully Pounds Distress Allegiance Mystic Fascists Madly In Love

Book:Poetry in our time: a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960

Source: Poetry in our time: a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960

“I love the fact that there's an evolution in your understanding and the difference between the first time you play the role and last time you play the role - there's an incredible arc and that's wonderful.”

Firsts Play Facts Lasts Understanding Differences Roles Wonderful Evolution First Time Incredibles Last Time Arcs

Author:Audrey Tautou

“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”

People Firsts Different Eye Lying Differences Race Feet Color Hair Shapes Built Skins Significant Brown Hierarchy Texture Lighters Showing Up Skin Color Eye Color

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.”

Firsts Able Differences Genius Inventing

Author:Craig Reucassel

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

Giving Firsts Law Causes Differences Economy Effects Birth Habit Consequence Ultimate Institutions Series Investing Enormous Succession Converses

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.”

Firsts War Differences Battle First Time Preparing Veteran War Veteran

Book:Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

Source: Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

“I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.”

People Firsts Seems Differences Audience Fronts Reactions Height Comment Drastic

Author:Kaki King

“I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.”

Way Firsts Children Artist Felt Differences Huge First Time Profound My Children

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.”

Needs Firsts Humans Said Law Jesus Christ Differences Human Beings Sin Teaching Stones Fundamentals Committed Jew Muhammad Great Teaching Good Teaching

Author:Ali Sina

“There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.”

Ifs Firsts Guy Names Differences Five Violence Other Guys Runts

Author:Jack Kirby

“We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.”

Knows Firsts Children Moments Night Differences Sleep Expression Personality Peaceful Oneness

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.”

People Ifs Firsts Problem Would Be Asks Differences Answers Pure Genes Homosexuality Homosexual Preference Unlikely

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Firsts Made Reason Kids Differences Lines Waste Meetings Interaction End Times Rope Spend Time Spotlight First Lady Greetings Always Thinking

Author:Michelle Obama

“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

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

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