“I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.” ThinkingDifferencesOpinionStriveAthleteGet Better Author:Arian Foster
“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.” ThinkingMadeBigsDifferencesHugeKeysGrewMajorsGrew UpSubtleMetalsMinors Author:Rivers Cuomo
“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindStillsDifferentBigsCertainDifferencesPayAttentionObjectsListeningHandleTreatedCommandPsychologicalPay AttentionDifferent WaysExpensiveTransitionFragileReverenceCdsFormatStanceVinyl Author:Brian Eno
“I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.” ThinkingImportantSometimesPlayFactsHappensTogetherDifferencesWatchesGroupsMusicianJazzFolksScoreShut UpClassical MusicImprovisingClassical Musicians Author:Brian Eno
“I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.” ThinkingWorldKindI CanHomeAsksCan DoDifferencesToo MuchMaking A DifferenceNeighborhoodLos AngelesBack HomeCanyons Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“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
“Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.” PeopleThinkingCharacterYoungSexUnderstandingDifferencesInspiringMembersEssentialsOppositesFilmmakerMovieAccuratePortraying Author:John Hughes
“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
“You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.” ThinkingDifferencesTalkingPromiseSittingDown AndSitting DownLove Relationship Author:Patricia Hewitt
“Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.” ThinkingShouldTryingSometimesFeelingsDifferencesPowerfulEffortAcceptingFailingRight NowSucceedExcitingLifetimeCelebrateProductiveEnjoyable Author:Martha Beck
“There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display your differences to make a difference.” ThinkingWayDifferencesPhysicsMaking A DifferenceDisplayQuilts Author:Martha Beck
“I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.” ThinkingLawTermDifferencesViewsStepsRolesJudgingApproachCommittedWillingnessProfessorsTemperamentEvaluateJudicial Author:John Roberts
“Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.” ThinkingTryingWellsHas BeensGivenDifferencesObligationCardsMaking A DifferenceReach OutInherent Author:Max Walker
“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.” ThinkingMenShouldSpeakDifferencesOpinionConversationOppositionDiscourseDissentDifferences Of Opinion Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume
“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingFirstsKindEndsStoriesFilmNextAsksDifferencesAudienceWeekTelevisionTvsReturnDirectorsNext Week Author:Jason Reitman
“Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.” ThinkingKindLittlesHas BeensMightJobsFilmCertainDifferencesImpactMaking A DifferenceRealisingMight Have BeenExplosivesVigilant Author:Colin Firth
“I thought the first two seasons of America's Got Talent were good. I think this one is the best one by a mile because they - you see the difference this year, I think, with the crowd being effectively the fourth judge. But most importantly, I think that these shows have to have a relevance because if you're not finding stars at the back of these shows - whether it's Idol or Got Talent - they're a complete waste of time.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsTwoShowsAmericaStarsDifferencesTalentJudgingWasteFindingsSeasonsCrowdsMilesWasting TimeIdolsFourthRelevance Author:Simon Cowell
“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 think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.” ThinkingWayNeedsMovingSoundDifferencesToo MuchEnhancementCgi Author:Ray Winstone
“Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.” PeopleThinkingNaturalDifferencesActingFrontsPerformingUncomfortablePerformers Author:Kristen Stewart
“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.” PeopleThinkingWantMatterShowsChoicesCultureStuffDifferencesRoomsTalkingSeeingSubjectsScaredTheatreAccessMainstreamAmerican CultureYoutubeSubject MatterLiving Room Author:Eli Roth
“I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10 or 11-years-old. I have learned so much throughout the years working with amazing directors and great actors as well. This was really a huge step for me because it's very different from anything that I've done before but I think the biggest difference here is that the cast we were surrounded by in this movie was unbelievable.” ThinkingYearsBelieveWellsHas BeensDifferentDoneActorsI BelieveDifferencesStepsGrowingHugeDirectorsCastsFortunateI Have LearnedUnbelievableGreat ActorsBelieve You CanLearning And Growing Author:Taylor Lautner
“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
“I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.” ThinkingSoundDifferencesTalkingTelevisionMusicalErasJust OnePunkRamonesTalking Heads Author:Debbie Harry
“I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.” ThinkingYearsDifficultDifferencesTakenChangedMonthsYears AgoPrint1960s Author:William Eggleston
“We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.” ThinkingFilmFacesActorsDifferencesLevelsFictionWrittenYour FaceDocumentariesFacelifts Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“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
“Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.” PeopleThinkingRealityLyingDifferencesSimpleTruth IsConflictArgumentObjectivesObjective Reality Author:Martin Luther
“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
“From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.” ThinkingIdeasHelpingLastsFilmChallengesDifferencesCreativeHugeCoupleElementsVisualsStandpointChallenging Myself Author:Sasha Grey
“I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.” ThinkingYearsMindDifferentCoursesReadingLostForceDifferencesPowerfulSceneSeriesOneselfCompareConfusedLocationAmbiguityVery PowerfulSimilarityDifferent TimesGridsGetting LostFinding OneselfLost And Confused Author:David Hockney
“There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.” PeopleThinkingWayKindCultureBeliefDifferencesAudienceTakenIntellectualEntertainmentCriticalCommodityGarbageConsensus Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.” ThinkingOpportunityLanguageWaitingDifferencesWiseRiskProducersAbundanceMaking A DifferenceInitiativeVentureScarcity Author:Oliver DeMille