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“A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.”

People Giving Trying May Doe Differences Views Creative Position Produce Keys Ordinary Arguing Favors Dialogue Compromise Discussion Fixed Convince Latter Agreement

Author:David

“One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.”

Dream Differences Effort Greater Talent Fields Produce Commitment Rewards Pursue Persistence Consistent Endeavor Enthusiastic Over The Top Patience And Persistence

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.”

Ifs Wells Different Reality Courses Natural Differences Interesting Produce Extremes Superiors Fades Inferiors Caution Being Different Fade Away

Book:Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business

Source: Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business

“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”

Shows Order Differences Effort Study Produce Approach Structure Average Faster Designer Magnitude

Author:Fred Brooks

“The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.”

Character Differences Produce Combination Harmonious Wedlock

Author:Washington Irving

“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.”

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”

Use Problem Light Earth Form Process Differences Sun Achieve Produce Aim Plant Stores Flight Covered Chemicals Organisms Elusive Streaming Photosynthesis

Author:Robert Mayer

“Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.”

Trying Sometimes Interest Differences Common Produce Solutions Threat Constructive Common Interests

Author:Staffan de Mistura

“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.”

Men Mind Mean Two Ideas Different Language Differences Produce Variety Characteristics Inadequate Different Minds

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.”