Difference Quotes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

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.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

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.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

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.

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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.

People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.