Opposites Quotes - Page 27

• They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Two, Waiting

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.208, Random House

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• First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

  Anita Roddick

  Fun, Firsts, Contradiction

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
  yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
  and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
  infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
  of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
  zero – and an infinity.

  Charles Seife

  Zero, Powerful, Philosophy

  Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Expression, Tablets, Faces

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• The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.

  Karl von Frisch

  Stupid, Animal, Intelligent

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• The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheism, Theism, Idolatry

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Acting, Firsts

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.

  David Weinberger

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

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• Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

  James MacDonald

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Tree, Chinese

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.112

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• Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent.  Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship.  Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience.  Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Book, Passion

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• A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

  Jane McGonigal

  Opportunity, Emotional, Games

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.30, Penguin

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• I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.

  Jon Ronson

  Tasers, Shooting, Faces

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• As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

  Luke Jermay

  Atheist, Mazes, Enjoy

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• Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

  Regis Debray

  Differences, Harmony, Conditions

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• If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Block, Inspiration

  "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

  Charlie Trotter

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Details

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• Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

  Sam Walton

  Way, Chance, Niche

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

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• A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

  Reynolds Price

  Home, Silence, Sound

  Reynolds Price (1989). “A common room: essays, 1954-1987”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

  Jerzy Andrzejewski

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Jerzy Andrzejewski, David J. Welsh (1991). “Ashes and Diamonds”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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• For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

  Geneen Roth

  Way, Bulimia, Purging

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• We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Gratitude, Loss, Dark

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• It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

  James Richardson

  Rivers, Smell, Rose

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• Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

  Will Schwalbe

  Reading, Dying

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.11, Vintage

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