“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.” WorldFeelsImportantArtistSoundDifferencesSeaGreenColourAttending Author:Eric Maisel
“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.” PeopleThinkingSaidRealityWaterDifferencesKnowingSeeingSeaMastersEnlightenmentSightMilesDrowningStormyStormy Seas Author:Anthony de Mello
“The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells” BigsGamesDifferencesSeaWallRiversLibraryFishesBoatChiefsLakesFishingClutterWeightliftingBarbell Author:Ed Zern
“In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.” IfsMenDoeMadeNamesEnjoyDifferencesPrayerSeaRiversTradeKillingFishesBoatLakesFishingSighPiousFishermanEjaculation Book:I Go A-fishing Source: I Go A-fishing
“The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.” TryingLooksDifferencesSeaRiversFishesBoatVulnerableAttractiveLakesFishingHuntingHuntersPreyFishermanLureHunting And Fishing Author:Walter D. Wetherell
“And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.” ThinkingLittlesDoeReasonUseCertainDifferencesHalfWonderOne ThingSeaRiversWingsPatternsFishesBoatLakesFishingTiedWetWornWorn OutTroutNymphsTrimming Author:Ray Bergman
“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.” MenMadeDifferentDifficultDifferencesEnvironmentSeaSocietyPoetTypeSoldierAssVarietyPriestsLionsSheepSailorCrowStatesmenWorkmenCalvesZoology Author:Honore de Balzac
“We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.” WayHeartMayNextDifferencesGenerationsSeaTongueDistinctionNext Generation Book:Historical Tracts Source: Historical Tracts
“Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?” TwoCoursesDifferencesWalksCommonSeaLandEvolutionDown AndIntentionFishesAttractionInvisibleBunchDustCuriousCellsImpulseLinksAncestorYearningMonkeysBackwardsDnaApesMagneticStaircasesCellular Book:Revolution Source: Revolution
“What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsKindEndsCountryStatesRememberBornDifferencesGoneFourSeeingSeaPositionSonMomFameLuckyFortuneMaking A DifferenceRemarkableFour YearsUps & DownsSingle Mom Author:Barack Obama
“Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.” TryingLongMovingNamesDifferencesKnownSeaProduceChineseBassMarketersPeddlerChileans Author:Jeffrey Kluger