Best individual & differences Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.”

States Individual Differences Students Intellectual Bars Restriction Refusal

Author:Fred M. Vinson

“Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.”

Knows Persons Individual Differences Unique Brilliant Managers Great Men Salespeople Great Managers

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.”

Hard Individual Differences Common Democracy Rich Core Variety Agreement Hard Core Individual Differences

Author:James Bryant Conant

“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.”

“Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.”

Self Universe Individual Differences Steps Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”

Doe Individual Differences Progress Depends Score Collectives

Book:The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Source: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

“When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”

“In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”

Heart Ends Passion Individual Differences Holy Solemnity

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.”

“We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.”

Thinking Humans Individual Differences Individual Differences

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.”

Mind Form Individual Differences Materials Shapes Built Atoms Intricate

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.”

Order House Individual Differences Perfect Fields Products Competition Improvement

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.”

World Soul Together Courses Individual Differences Huge Changing The World

Author:Richard Branson

“Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.”

“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

“We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.”

Facts Individual Differences Common Groups Logic Significant Refrain Variance Individual Differences

Author:Ilana Mercer

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.”

World Play Form Desire Literature Individual Differences Identity Baby Models Concepts Impulse Classic Interaction Multiple Kaleidoscope

Author:Toni Morrison

“When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.”

Feels Purpose Individual Loses Differences Identity Eternal Who I Am Live Life

Author:Neva Coyle

“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Kids Form Values Choices Girl Individual Differences Boys Morality Truth Is Abuse Defined Relative Recipes Harassment Boy And Girl Physical Abuse Relative Truth Individual Choice

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.”

Ifs Individual Differences Decision Responsibility Making A Difference Decision Making Makers Never Change Decision Makers Things Will Never Change

Author:Jane Goodall

“The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.”

Use Opportunity Individual Differences Business Company Power Degrees Granted

Book:Change Masters

Source: Change Masters

“In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.”

Ifs Different Order Individual Differences Views Various Educational Realistic Curriculum Individual Differences

Book:Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science

“To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.”

“The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.”

Made Problem Individual Differences Groups Tests Treats Disappear Throwing Fever Thermometers Individual Differences Throwing Away

Book:Bias in Mental Testing

Source: Bias in Mental Testing

“We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.”

Important Country Seems Age Moving Individual Differences Accepting Important Things Forgiving Revenge Why Not

Author:Liam Neeson

“The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.”

Wells Real Individual Differences Rooms Watches Practice Television Discipline Exercise Tests Guides Versions You Choose

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.”

Enough Helping Happens Pain Asks Individual Differences Making A Difference Resolve Had Enough Enough Pain

Author:Mike Ferguson

“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”

May Littles Moments Values Order Individual Lost Differences Results Events Battle Balls Importance Great Results

Author:Duke of Wellington

“See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.”

Individual Differences Teach Karma Deception Individual Differences

Author:Neem Karoli Baba

“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

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Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

“Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.”

“Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.”

Individual Differences Honor Fame Appraisal

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

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