“I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.” IfsThinkingTvsConcernedOppositesHipsSincerityBeing CoolCoolness Author:Michael Schur
“Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.” TwoEndsConcernedOppositesContinuumLove And FearTwo Opposites Author:Jack Canfield
“Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.” IfsShouldPersonsMadeCertainEasyDecisionCasesImpossibleConcernedOppositesDefeatSuperiorsEmploymentInstructionPossessedAccurateRhetoricDiscourseScientific Knowledge Book:Aristotle: the art of rhetoric Source: Aristotle: the art of rhetoric
“I'm kind of concerned the combined effect, not only Google, all these companies is kind of to make us more boring and that seems the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be.” KindSeemsCompanyEffectsInternetConcernedOppositesBoringSupposed To BeGoogle Author:Tim Wu
“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.” PeopleIdeasCultureViewsListeningSpeechTrainingConcernedFlowOppositesTediousInterruptions Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.” I CanStatesPoliticalCasesNovelPositionSpringConcernedOppositesCommittedNovelistsIndivisible Author:Ghassan Kanafani
“Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.” ShouldWarFacesPeaceViolenceConcernedOppositesSavingAlternativesNonviolenceAntidoteSave A Life Author:Jesse Jackson