Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be, to realise as sacred art anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.
My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.
Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Tension of opposites.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
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