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“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”

Results Keys Activity Opposites Increase Stress Productivity Time Management Improving Output

Author:Paul Gauguin

“It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.”

Happiness Causes Virtue Exercise Activity Opposites Active Faculty Conformity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.”

People Hours Pay Activity Opposites Sells Merchandise

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.”

Men Ends Today Heaven Hours Listening Activity Opposites Dear Size Accepted Noise Heresy Monstrous Bluster

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”

Humans Causes Goal Results Activity Opposites Realization True Nature Human Activity

Book:Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

“There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Light Certain Impossible Blood Activity Opposites Assuming Betrayal Remarkable Desirable Juice Unbearable Deadline Unimportant Impossible Becomes Possible

Author:Walter Wykes

“If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person.”

Ifs Persons Fall Sex Risk Activity Opposites Falling In Love Your Favorite Recreational Activities

Author:Willard F. Harley

“The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.”

Life Inspirational Soul Inspirational Life Activity Opposites Pairs Liberated

Author:Patanjali

“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”

Believe Stills Government Running Lasts Purpose Economy Citizens Activity Protect Opposites Primaries Corporations Destructive Injured Outrage Purpose Of Government

Author:Derrick Jensen

“The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly.”

Thinking Way Giving Mind Two Spirit Lying Chance Successful Meditation Pure Activity Opposites Ultimate Intuition Pairs Manifest Restless Contradictory Thinking Mind Silencing

Author:Anagarika Govinda