Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ferriss

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Tim Ferriss

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

S. J. Perelman

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Roman Coppola

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

Ron Perlman

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

Susan Orlean

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Scott McClellan

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

Seth

Try is the opposite of hiding.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Durrell

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marc Jacobs

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Sharon Salzberg

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

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.

Paul Tillich

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.

Paul Krugman

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

Paul Mazursky

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

Patton Oswalt

With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.

Henri Nouwen

Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

Heraclitus

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Heraclitus

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Heraclitus

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

Henry Ward Beecher

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Henry Cloud

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

Jo Nesbo

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Madame de Stael

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.