“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.” KnowsMenWantProblemSexSoundWomenDifferencesViewsLeaderDemocracyWrittenCommunicationConversationElectionPresidentialVotersAdaptationChillSpineWant HimPlugsPresidential Election Author:Deborah Tannen
“I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable...you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.” IfsKnowsMadeAsksDifferencesWalksStepsImpossibleRejectsImprobable Author:Gary Holder-Winfield
“Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.” KnowsHumansChildrenBlackDifferencesHuman BeingsWhiteMy ChildrenBlack Women Author:Moms Mabley
“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.” KnowsFirstsChildrenMomentsNightDifferencesSleepExpressionPersonalityPeacefulOneness Author:Wayne Dyer
“Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.” KnowsWantMadeEndsDifferencesKnownCareersWinnerNbaMultipleChampionshipJordanNba Championships Author:Mario Chalmers
“I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantI CanEnergyDifferencesVisionThis WorldCitizensDecidedUpsetMaking A Difference Author:Gary Zukav
“I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.” KnowsHeartChristDifferencesChurchMy HeartIntellectualPresbyterians Author:Billy Graham
“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.” PeopleKnowsShouldValuesFeltDifferencesTalentFortunateGood People Author:Bob Hartley
“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.” PeopleKnowsShouldLittlesMadeReasonPlayHelpingBigsSeemsOrderBitsCan DoRealizingDifferencesBedProjectsLittle BitHelpfulHappy LifeConcreteSmall ThingsSmall PartsManageableGetting Started Author:Gretchen Rubin
“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.” KnowsTryingRememberBlackDifferencesWhiteColorMajorsLocalsProgrammingBlack And WhiteConvertingNbc Author:Jim Henson
“I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.” KnowsMenYearsMadeUsedThreeDifferencesMy OwnMeetingsCornersUsed To BeFantasticMassiveThree YearsVery HappyAround The CornerGood PlaceHoping For The BestHappy With Him Author:Anna Friel
“The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.” ThinkingKnowsHumansEndsPoliticalPoliticsDifferencesCapitalismSlaveryConservativeLibertarianMeatControlledAlas Author:Jerry Pournelle
“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.” ThinkingKnowsProblemKidsDifferencesResultsTroubleTheoryAdultsGladObservationFakeSelectEcstatic Author:Emma Bull
“Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.” IfsKnowsLooksHeartMadeHandsSufferingEvilDifferencesLordKnowingGraceMouthsFellowsAngryLaysCriticalSeedsTrialsDustMade ItSinnerCompassionateHarshAfflictionInfirmityIniquity Author:John Newton
“What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.” KnowsKidsSexDifferencesFiveFourWifeAnd LoveSex And Love Author:James Caan
“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
“I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."” KnowsKindSaidHardDifferencesStomach Author:Kristen Stewart
“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
“I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.” KnowsWantYearsPersonsI CanYoungUsedGirlDifferencesWho I AmDumbCuteMaking A DifferenceHeiress Author:Paris Hilton
“In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.” KnowsWayMadeFilmCommunityDifferencesAudienceKnow HowInternationalCommunicateChinesePropagandaCinemaHong Kong Author:Wong Kar-wai
“Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."” PeopleThinkingKnowsPassionDifferencesMadnessPossessionCommerce Author:Manolo Blahnik
“That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.” PeopleKnowsSaidMightDifferencesFoolPhilosopherArguingMurphys LawGreat Philosophers Author:Tucker Carlson
“There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.” PeopleKnowsDifferentBigsDifferencesNiceHappenedBabyBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Christopher Hitchens
“We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.” KnowsDifferencesProgressTearsSweatWetSaltySweat And Tears Book:Straight from the Heart Source: Straight from the Heart
“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
“I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.” KnowsNeedsDifferencesPlansRocksTomorrowWake UpHanging Around Author:Keith Richards
“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
“I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.” KnowsWayIdeasBigsDifferencesConceptsMachinesWheelsIdlers Author:Fiona Apple
“The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryStrongDifferencesMediaExampleHugeBirthDuesConstructionMisconceptionLack Of KnowledgeLithuania Author:Alante Kavaite