Subtle Differences Quotes

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.