Difference Quotes

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

If you care enough, you make a difference.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

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.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

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.

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.