Quotes with distinguish

  • We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Abdul Kalam Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Stephen Bayley ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Carolus Linnaeus A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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  • Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Juvenal Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Caleb Cushing It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Sher It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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