“It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing.” IfsThinkingKnowsHandsWantedMovingLeftEasyDifferences Author:Freddie Highmore
“It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer. If someone hunts a lion, it's like: "Wow, they're brave!" But if they're hunting a deer it's like: "That poor deer!" I know that. I know that guys getting killed is horrible but people have seen it before. You've seen The Evil Dead. With girls, it's like: "I don't want to see that happening..." I know that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantGuyGirlEvilDifferencesPoorHappeningsBraveHorribleLionsWowHuntingHuntsThat GuyDeerEvil Dead Author:Eli Roth
“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferencesInterestingCompassionMoralEmpathyIntelligentStructureDefinitionsMedicalLiarsProfilePsychopathSociopathShorthandNo CompassionPathological Liar Author:Cillian Murphy
“I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.” IfsMenPersonsUseGamesDifferencesBeatsStrongerSquashStealthOlder ManGuile Author:Nolan Bushnell
“If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.” IfsAbleFilmDifferencesAudienceMagicIndependentCraftsFilmmakerDelicateInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Guillermo del Toro
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.” IfsThinkingNeedsMindHas BeensMadeStillsIdeasHomeDifferencesSecretCreativityChangedHabitEssentialsPaperDistanceOur TimeGet AwayObscurePapersHome Home Author:Jonah Lehrer
“What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.” IfsBelieveCareDifferencesCompanyClearTake CareCustomersMaking A DifferenceEmployeeMotivated Author:Anne M. Mulcahy
“These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsPlayOrderSpeakLanguageUnderstandingDifferencesRolesInformationDesignResponsibleIncludingDefinedThese DaysDesignerMaking A DifferenceArchitectCommodityReceiverInterpreterTranslators Author:Erik Spiekermann
“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.” IfsWellsReadingVoiceDifferencesWrittenPoetInstrumentsStaringSheetsHummingSheet Music Author:Robert Pinsky
“You know the difference between guys and girls? Usually girls say it's no different whatsoever. But you see, a lot of girls they don't understand that they are better than us guys. If you think about it, they are much more manipulative.” IfsThinkingKnowsDifferentGuyGirlDifferencesManipulative Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.” IfsNeedsMindWarHumanityIndividualDifferencesSolutionsCrisisCollectives Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky