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“The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.”

Film Differences Quality Huge Dinner Budgets Lunch

Author:Ving Rhames

“A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.”

Men Should May Differences Quality Virtue Primaries Limitation Making Money Assumption Quantity Consumerism Businessman Overconsumption

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“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.”

“I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.”

Made Differences Quality Company Clear Website

Author:Patrick Collison

“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”

Mind States Age Differences Pleasure Quality Conditions Music Is Seasons Sacred Distinction Productive Temper Secular Anguish

Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

“One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.”

May Art Differences Quality Clear Products Sells Intention Tickets High Quality

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“The difference between Fashion and Style is Quality”

Differences Quality Fashion Style Fashion And Style

Author:Giorgio Armani

“The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.”

Differences Quality Player Soccer Mentality

Author:Rafael Benitez

“Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.”

People Problem Bigs Given Differences Cities Quality Difficulty Dues Paradise Latin Latin America Slums American Cities Latin American

Author:Jaime Lerner

“How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.”

Way Feels Mind Heart Mean Happens Differences Quality Journey Influence Enormous Range

Book:Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

“Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. ..... Selfness. When selfness prevails, the qualities of others are sometimes used for self and the qualities of self are often extended to others. The basic and key difference is that exploitation is never the object of the outcome.”

Self Sometimes Used Differences Quality Objects Keys Selfish Outcomes Selfless Exploitation

Author:Bob Samples

“There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.”

Littles Desire Strong Differences Quality Greater Pieces Yearning

Author:Steve Goodier

“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.”

Way Feelings Problem Body Differences Quality Complexes Edges Relate Related Making A Difference Peculiar Recognizing Discomfort Implications Unclear Sensing

Author:Eugene Gendlin