Difference Quotes

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

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.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.