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Letter "D" » distinction
«I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
be given, connected, director, distinction, producer, producers, stupidest, The producer, The Producers
«Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.»
Author: Bruce Marton
| About:
Achievement,
Opportunity,
Success
| Keywords:
at hand, developed, distinction, most successful, presented
«No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction»
Author: Charles Kendall Adams
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
attains, determines, distinction, eminent, excellence, required
«My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.»
Author: Helen Hayes
(Actress)
| Keywords:
distinction, Drew, Nice, praised, satisfying, studied, The Knowledge, worked
«I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.»
Author: Audrey Hepburn
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Experience,
Movies
| Keywords:
distinction, lacked, laws of logic, movie star, Movie stars
«Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.»
«Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
ahead, a little, between, departed, distinction, future, illusion, less than nothing, little, means, now, past, People Like Us, persistent, physic, physics, present, Present and the Past, strange, stubbornly, that means nothing
«I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
distinction, How to, Know how, tears
«It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
distinction, hard, lot, many, virtues
«No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
distinction, drawn, purse, stealing
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