Opposites Quotes - Page 22

• The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Cowardice, Manliness

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.16, Random House

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• The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

  Julia Cameron

  Anxiety, Poverty, Prosperity

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 18, 2012

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• When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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• If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

  Chris Rock

  School, Abortion, Birth Control

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• Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Anxiety, The End Of The Day

  "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

  Ryan Holiday

  People, Tragedy, Ordinary

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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• I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

  Christian Bale

  Ideas, People, Want

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Class, Would Be, Gone

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• It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

  Jessica Alba

  Who I Am, Play, Drug

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• And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, School, Boys

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• Vin Diesel and I have different approaches to life. We found a respect for one another but we were such opposite ends of the spectrum. The reason why it's worked is because we are so different. I don't know if we necessarily found a stride together because there are certain days I still want to crack him in the head! But he looks at me and there are days he wants to crack me in the head too. Then there are times he'll look at me and say, 'Man, I wish I could be more like you,' and I'm like, 'F**ker, I wish I could be more like you!'

  Paul Walker

  Men, Together, Wish

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• Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

  Sophia Myles

  Stars, Grateful, People

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• When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Apples, Prana

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Apples, Brain

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

  Travis Barker

  Home, Responsibility, Air

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• Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

  Glenn Ford

  Trying, Actors, Lines

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  Aaron Stanford

  War, Thinking, People

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• We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Art, Tactics, Chess

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• We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Light, Order

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• To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Rocks, Law, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological tracts. Miscellaneous tracts. Dedications. Opinions on questions of law. Reviews and criticisms. Journey to the Western islands of Scotland. Prayers and meditations”, p.363

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• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Fall, Suffering

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• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Desire, Doe

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Teacher, People, Acting

  "Kristin Bauer van Straten Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2011.

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• The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

  John Wilbanks

  Broken

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• I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.

  Catherine Breillat

  Expression, Cinema, May

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