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“The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.”

People Men Differences Originals Intellect Commonplace

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.”

Should Believe Religion Differences Taught Source Originals Similarity

Author:Yehuda Berg

“We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.”

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“We talk to our guys all the time about the difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you do it all the time, even when you lost that feeling that you originally had when you you made the original commitment.”

Made Feelings Guy Lost Interest Differences Commitment Originals Committed Coaches Convenient

Author:Shaka Smart

“Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.”

Ifs Might Language Differences Reader Originals Interpretation Efficiency Ambiguity Filters Cultural Differences

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.”

“Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.”

Giving Long Whole Differences White Flower Originals Fellows Tables Yellow Immense Bowls Haiku Whole Picture Yellow Flower

Author:John Lennon

“There's a difference between music that's original and music that's retro. A lot of bands now are kind of retro 70s whether it's Kraut-rock or... I've heard people suggest that we're kind of retro 80s.”

People Kind Differences Heard Rocks Band Originals 80s Retro

Author:Bill Orcutt

“A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.”

Differences Figures Shadow Originals Screens Attractive Scenery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity.”

Real Country Earth Culture Given Black Differences White Conditions Identity Huge Originals Majority Population Disconnected

Author:Kola Boof

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”

Writing Two Book Literature Differences Results Six Pages Hundred Originals Eight Editing Rewriting

Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

Source: The Garner Files: A Memoir