Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ferriss

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Tammin Sursok

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Tamara Ecclestone

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

Taisen Deshimaru

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

Rollo May

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Rumi

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.

Tommy Shaw

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Thomas Merton

Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?

Tony Judt

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

Shirley Eaton

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

Shakti Gawain

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

Shakti Gawain

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

Shakti Gawain

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Steven Pressfield

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.

Susan Minot

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.

Kofi Annan

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

Kim Ki-duk

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Kelly Lynch

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Keith Haring

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Simone Weil

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Simon Sinek

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

Tim Gane

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

Ruth Benedict

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Rudolf Arnheim

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Thomas Malthus

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Ray Lewis

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

Taylor Caldwell

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Robin Hobb

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

Robert Motherwell

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.