Alain de Botton Quotes, Assessment Quotes, Differences Quotes

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

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Indifference is a quarantined difference.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

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The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

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This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

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I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

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Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

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There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

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I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human.

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