Differences Quotes

“Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“She could not have been born gray. Her
color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed
nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.”
― James Rozoff

“The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be something of a high-miler, and old-timer, although there are plenty of older ones running. But over the miles, and I think most cyclists will agree with this, you pick up certain feelings about an individual machine that are unique for that one individual machine and no other. A friend who owns a cycle of the same make, model and even same year brought it over for a repair, and when I test rode it afterward it was hard to believe it had come from the same factory years ago. You could see that long ago it had settled into its own kind of feel and ride and sound, completely different from mine. No worse, but different.

I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is the personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance. The new ones start out as good-looking strangers, and depending on how they are treated, degenerate rapidly into bad-acting grouches or even cripples, or else turn into healthy, good-natured, long-lasting friends.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are "evolving" past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.”
― Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be like everyone else and then bragged about how they were different. All their differences put into a pot and boiled down wouldn't spice baby food. By trying to brag about how different they were, they just really showed how alike they were, because all their differences were alike.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Up from Jericho Tel

“We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.”
― Jill Telford

“Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.”
― Jerhia

“Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink

“It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression”
― Amaka Nkosazana

“Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.”
― Henry Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead

“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn’t always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.”
― Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino

“It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.”
― Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“When feels that someone puts you aside,
sometimes thinks in an act of selfishness
but always its really to have afraid of something worst.”
― frank jymz

“Mēs visi esam tik vienādi, bet savā būtībā tik dažādi. Manos gados varbūt tā domāt ir naivi? Bērnišķīgi? Sentimentāli? Varbūt esmu morālists? Un kas tur ļauns? Manā darbā un manā vecumā nemaz nevar iztikt bez kādas šķipsniņas morāles. Tāpat kā pavārs neiztiek bez sāls, kriminālistam dzīves zupā jāiemet maza šķipsniņa morāles. Citādi viņš kļūst par vienkāršu nezāļu ravētāju. Un nezāles var ravēt arī mašīna.”
― Alberts Bels

“Mēs visi esam vienas sabiedrības bērni, kā rieksti vienā lazdā. Dažos ielien smecernieks, izgrauž serdi, paliek tukšums, dažus notrauc vēji pirms laika, dažus apēd vāveres un meža putni, un tikai daži auglīgā augsnē dzen jaunas atvases dzīvībai. Mēs visi esam tik vienādi, bet savā būtībā tik dažādi.”
― Alberts Bels, The Cage

“Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.”
― Karen Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead

“Truth be told, I’m still in awe of her, but I found it easier to relate to her. She really made me see that we are all the same. We all suffer the same feelings of inadequacy because we are not like others, but that’s what makes us so special too.”
― Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino

“Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.”
― Mordecai Richler

“Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“Aberrant is not abhorrent”
― Matthew Goldfinger

“When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.”
― Bidemi Mark-Mordi

“The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.”
― Saunsea