Difference Quotes

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

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.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

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.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

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?

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.