“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.” FeelsTryingYearsHas BeensMadeDifferentEnoughStrongEnjoyTeachWorryTeamConceptsAthleteCoachesStrong EnoughNot Worrying Author:Melanie Roach
“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.” TryingDifferentEnoughCharacterFactsProcessSubjectsSourceSurfaceNovelistsLayersQuestioningReportersObservingBeneath The Surface Author:Amy Waldman
“So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.” IfsThinkingLongStillsDifferentEnoughHandsLosesPerfectGriefClearShareLonelyExplanationFadesBetter OffDifferent PlacePristine Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“In Heaven, a lot of things will be different, but many things are going to be the same, enough so that we'll still be able to use much of the knowledge, skills, talents and experience that we have gained in this life. God will not allow all the training we have received to be wasted.” StillsDifferentEnoughUseAbleHeavenTalentSkillsTrainingGods WillThis LifeHeavenly Author:David Berg
“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.” IfsWritingBookDifferentEnoughWonderfulHavensSellsAddictionSomething NewPublishSuperb Author:Charles Adams
“Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.” PeopleTwoDifferentEnoughRealizingLove IsEmotionStrangeLuckyLustEvolveDifferent ThingsTogethernessTransientTwo Different Things Author:Randeep Hooda
“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.” PeopleMeanDifferentSelfEnoughMightSidesCasesBenefitsContradictionOpen MindednessBigots Author:Criss Jami
“There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.” ThinkingWayI CanIdeasDifferentEnoughWould BeAbleSongChallengesFashionHumorousCleverDifferent WaysCandidatesFlatsParodyRepetitive Author:Al Yankovic
“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.” WorldWellsHas BeensMadeDifferentMatterEnoughMightPastForceEnvironmentFineProveMassBuiltPerfectionCurrentsAvailableCuriousOur WorldImperfectionTransformedSelectionMight Have BeenAdaptationJuryAdaptedQuirkyOmnipotentRiggedOptimal Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.” ThinkingShouldMindHas BeensDifferentStatesEnoughStoriesDreamBigsIndividualSleepPayEmotionAttentionPsychologyFireHavensResearchWake UpStructurePay AttentionDreamerSubconsciousSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.” PeopleKnowsWayDifferentEnoughEnergySoundSleepActingMorningSceneWake UpRidiculousDifferent WaysHomeworkUp EarlyEnough Sleep Author:Amanda Schull
“To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.” WorldDifferentMatterEnoughImagineMankindReasonableWithout God Author:Anthony Marais
“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughBodyRunningSportsWeekEasierTrainingWeightTrainYour BodyCoreBoredDifferent WaysTennisMusclesGymSwimmingLiftingCyclingCardioPlaying SportsCardiovascular ExerciseLifting Weights Author:Arjun Rampal
“The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.” DifferentEnoughIndividualOpinionNewsCollectivesRemarkableColorfulLegion Author:William Safire
“I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughAgeJoyPerfectRocksBeatsGoldenFortunateDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsRecipesAndrewGolden Age Author:Julie Andrews
“Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.” DifferentEnoughFeelingsFatherLeftGenerationsSonDadDaughterLeavingWoundsPsychicsHad EnoughDeprivationSon And Daughter Author:Warren Farrell
“I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.” DifferentEnoughGoalNeededWeightBasesDistanceCelebrateDifferent ThingsTargetTreadmills Author:Ali Vincent
“Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.” DifferentEnoughCitiesRichTraditionChessSquaresSevilleValencia Author:Anatoly Karpov
“You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.” DifferentEnoughNicePaintGuitarShoesPalette Author:Dave Genn
“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.” DifferentEnoughArtistEasyHistoryStylePaintingSeriousPeriodsPagesTrainingAddHistoricalContributionMaking History Author:Liu Dan
“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.” IfsThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsStillsDifferentWarEnoughWould BeAbleTogetherPoliticalForceWishWomenPowerfulEnvironmentGenerationsGroupsBirthBiggerImpactEmbraceDon't BelieveRanBigger Picture Author:Kyra Sedgwick
“Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.” PeopleBelieveLooksDifferentEnoughActionDiesVisionPossibilityEvidenceOptimismNotionRationalGuaranteesPrisonerHeroicOddsSecularContagiousNew PossibilitiesAgainst The OddsOptimism And Hope Author:Cornel West
“You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'” IfsWantTryingKindDifferentHardEnoughMovingMistakeStudyPersonalityGet UpEmployeeMaking MistakesI Want YouKeep MovingResilientSame MistakesTrying HardMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Trip Hawkins
“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.” PeopleImportantDifferentEnoughWholeTodaySidesChallengesModernMediaInformationPositionCommunicationTendenciesLatterInvitedInfluentialViewpointsModern Communication Author:Pope Francis
“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.” PeopleWayGivingBelieveHeartDoeArtImportantIdeasDifferentHardEnoughArtistCultureSupportTakenGoes OnGiving UpChecksDamnDifferent WaysAbundanceManifestDon't Give UpScarcityKeep The Faith Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.” PeopleDifferentSometimesHardEnoughAgeYoungSpecialComfortableSkinsThis DayJudgmentalClosed Minded Author:Ariana Grande
“Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.” WorldYearsDifferentEnoughLastsChangedTwenties Author:Anna Quindlen
“To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.” WayDifferentEnoughFormIndividualEnjoyCommonMy FriendsVariousGladVarietyDispositionDistinguishedSpicesHerdsSpice Of LifeVariety Is The Spice Of Life Book:8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's Source: 8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.” PeopleIfsPersonsDifferentReasonEnoughSpiritualMoralConditionsDevelopmentTasteShapesDiversityModelsPlantClimateVarietyAtmosphereAttemptingSpiritual Development Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill