Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!
~By Mila Kunis ~
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
~By Birch Bayh ~
It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
~By Lord Robertson ~
You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
~By Dan Miller ~
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
~By Kelly Osbourne ~
The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
~By Chris Matthews ~
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
~By Edmund H. North ~
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
~By Helen Keller ~
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
~By Henri Matisse ~
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
~By David Viscott ~
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
~By Bruce Henderson ~
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~By William James ~
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
~By Charles Moore ~
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
~By Potter Stewart ~
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
~By David Dinkins ~
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
~By Christie Todd Whitman ~
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
~By Max Frisch ~
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
~By Oded Fehr ~
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
Politeness is organized indifference.
~By Paul Valery ~
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
~By Hugh Prather ~
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
~By Sam Ewing ~
There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.
~By Lynne Cheney ~
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
~By I. F. Stone ~
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
~By Anne Tyler ~
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
~By Phil Collins ~
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
~By Sharon Stone ~
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
~By Edward Bond ~
I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
~By Andie MacDowell ~
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
~By James Randi ~
Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
~By Vic Mignogna ~
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
~By Ellen Glasgow ~
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
~By Mark Haddon ~
The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
~By Hamilton Jordan ~
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
~By Joan Chen ~
And understand: class differences will not save you.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
~By Len Wein ~
You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
~By Chuck D. ~
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
~By Edmund Burke ~
You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
~By Mitt Romney ~
We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
~By Jane Elliott ~
But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
~By Angela Davis ~
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
~By David Gest ~
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
~By Tom Selleck ~
It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
~By Fiona Apple ~
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~By Andre Malraux ~
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
~By Galen Rowell ~
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
~By Jerry Costello ~
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
~By Nelson Boswell ~
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
~By Meryl Streep ~
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
~By George Orwell ~
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
~By Bliss Carman ~
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
~By Scott Adams ~
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