You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it’s a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people’s lives without having a title in front of your name.
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American ‘invention.’ The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
Depression has been called the world’s number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it – because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don’t you see?
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.
It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference.
I don’t ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, ‘The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.’ The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.
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.
Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don’t always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate – the difference between what we think and how we feel.
There’s always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn’t make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.
For some reason, I always wanted to work in an environment where things weren’t so good. I’m no messiah, but I always wanted to try and make a difference where a team hadn’t prospered.
The main difference between listening to music on a computer and listening to music on vinyl or disc is not sound quality or even portability; it’s that when you listen to music on a computer, you listen to music on the same instrument you use to acquire it.
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
There’s an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he’s a member of your ethnic group.
The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.
In the writers’ room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they’ve stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
I think we’re in good hands. There’s definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone’s got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.
Never wear a seersucker suit straight off the rack. It’s going to look shapeless and droopy. If you’re going to sport seersucker, whether a jacket, trousers or a full suit, have it fitted. A nice, custom, tailored fit makes all the difference in the world.
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Overall, there isn’t much difference between a high-end Android and iOS phone, despite the fact that Android is a knockoff of iOS.
Any donation does make a difference. Getting involved is what makes BBC Children in Need so moving.
There’s nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There’s a huge difference between writing and thinking.
There’s something always instinctively visually right about nature. There’s no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it’s great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say – it’s revealed to you as you say it. That’s the difference between art and illustration.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
I use the same products on my body as I use on my face. I don’t think there’s really any difference between the two, so the more moisturizers and serums you use, the better off you are.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don’t see how their job really makes a difference in someone else’s life in some large or small way.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
There’s often a discussion about, ‘Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?’ I’ve always argued that all of us know that there’s a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don’t feel happy.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
‘On earth the living have much to bear;’ the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
