Small Differences Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Security And Freedom, Differences

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Differences, Perception

  24 Copy quote

• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Differences

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1103b,

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Thinking, Differences, Essentials

  "Henri Cartier-Bresson: 'There Are No Maybes'". Interview with Sheila Turner-Seed, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. 1971.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Levels, Derivatives

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

  Gilbert Blane

  Art, Medicine, Differences

  Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

  Peter Høeg

  Karma, Lying, Differences

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source