"Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results."
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"Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time."
"I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different."
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over."
"Many times I feel different like a different person."
"I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different."
"What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior. Today, the industry bears little resemblance to the one I joined 30 years ago, which is what's so exciting about it. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the notion that a successful business model is one that has the ability to respond positively to the unexpected shifts in the winds as they continue to present themselves."
"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
"Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different."
"You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend."
"The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend."
"She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe."
"The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator."
"You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die."
"You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way."
"We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own."
"When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking."
"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
"And what has been just completely heart warming is to see that people are really hungry for something different."