Quotes about opposite
opposites role-models roles
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? John Waters
opposites way firsts
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'. John Sayles
opposites abortion might
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently. John Piper
opposites red kind
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite. Mark Teixeira
opposites romance zoom
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both. Mariella Frostrup
opposites theatre embroidery
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework. Nicholas Ray
opposites interesting
The opposite of coherent is interesting. Seth Godin
opposites overcoming helping
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
opposites people drunk
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous. Slash
opposites bankers bourgeoisie
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success. Slavoj Zizek
opposites over-you mind
Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. Sister Souljah
opposites all-things
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? Socrates
opposites car office
Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make. Michael Scott
opposites insecurity risk
The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. Theodore J. Forstmann
opposites invisible feels
Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership. Margaret Heffernan
opposites leader followers
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. Marcus Buckingham
opposites legs tails
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience. Michael Bolton
opposites entrepreneur valleys
The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs. Michael Arrington
opposites desire
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love. Ray Bradbury
opposites vices virtue
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. Eric Hoffer
opposites society way
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
opposites age world
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.
opposites soul tension
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
opposites ideas laughing
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. Eric Bana
opposites people profound
I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor. Jake Gyllenhaal
opposites evil cash
There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience Patricia Briggs
opposites serious understood
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. Plato
opposites path sides
...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his. Lisa Kleypas
opposites justice guy
Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice. Johnny Depp
opposites may littles
He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion John Stuart Mill
opposites dogmatism
Faith: The opposite of dogmatism. John Ralston Saul
opposites rivers smell
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
opposites play dumb
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. Kurt Tucholsky