Opposites Quotes - Page 33

• Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

  Pythagoras

  Elements, Music Is

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• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Years, Editors

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• Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Enlightenment

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• They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Rejected

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, People, Rewards

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• What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Might, Dharma

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• You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Yourself, Yoga, Thinking

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• It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, War, Yoga

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• The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Enlightenment, Sound

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• Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Opposites Attract

  Joy Browne (2011). “Dating For Dummies”, p.372, John Wiley & Sons

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• Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sexy, Women, Naivete

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• Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Views, Point Of View

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Age, Citizens

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• When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.

  Chris Pratt

  Book, Light, Giving

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

  John Waters

  Date Movie, Hard

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

  William O'Neil

  Thinking, Personal Opinions, Tv Shows

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• Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

  George Packer

  War, Arches, Cold

  "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.

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• It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

  George Galloway

  Patriotic, Soldier, Way

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• Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

  Conrad Hyers

  Despair, Seriousness

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• The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Ideas, Long

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• It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

  Todd Burpo

  Honesty, Ignorance, Reality

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

  Randeep Hooda

  Sex, Love Is, Two

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• Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

  Orrin Woodward

  Important, Culture, Wealth

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• Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

  Colleen Hoover

  Hate, Passion, Feelings

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “This Girl”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

  Clive Thompson

  Thinking, Data, Tools

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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