Zitat des Tages über Unterscheidung / Distinction:
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
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.
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.
