Quotes on Differentiate

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively Ray Dalio

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service. Jonathan Tisch

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect. Al Ries

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we're comfortable with new lows. Peter Cundill

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition. Josh James

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. Art Blakey

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. Gertrude Stein

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees. Steven Furtick

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism. Ostad Elahi

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time. Mia Hamm

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour. Odilon Redon

All have dreams, Life for them, they add meaning to LIFE. The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that US can dream. Sujit Lalwani

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same... Vince Staples

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them Hermann Broch

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass! Adam Savage

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate. Jack Welch

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well. John Amos

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural. Andy Rooney

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. Oliver Lodge

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. Bernard Tschumi

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. Edwin Boring

It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them. Fabian Cancellara

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates. Michel Serres

Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is. Jack Welch

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down. Mata Amritanandamayi

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who 'already differentiates instruction.' Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners. Carol Ann Tomlinson

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression. Ahmed Yassin

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. John F. Carlson

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. Christian Bale

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. Ayn Rand

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors. Patrick Lencioni

Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class. Albert J Nock

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of your competition. That doesn't mean being salesperson oriented, just sales oriented: winning deals, smelling the blood and going in for the kill. Josh James

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you. Edward T Hall

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right. Dave Matthews

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire. Arnold Bennett

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state. Rumi

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit. Mike Leigh

To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that's above and beyond what's expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver. Tony Hsieh

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. Rollo May

Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are... Charles A. Didier

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries. Mata Amritanandamayi

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike. Al Ries

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia's communist workers. Alexandra Kollontai

The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity. Dalai Lama

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. Robert H. Goddard

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them. Jeff Beck

Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world. Steve Ballmer

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory. Claude Levi-Strauss

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves. Bob Newhart

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious. H L Mencken

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. Abdurrahman Wahid

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount. Louis Begley

Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons. David Perlmutter

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions. Daley Thompson

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. Hans Hofmann

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information. Bill Gates

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. T S Eliot

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation. Claude Bernard

One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof. Ayn Rand

Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears. Robert Greene

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour. Donatella Versace

... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all. Albion Fellows Bacon

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone. Steven A Cohen

What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly. Eric Ries

When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question? Ravi Zacharias

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats-and they in turn can listen to ours. Henning Mankell

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. Herbert Newton Casson

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