Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.
Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.
The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.
You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor. . . But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
