“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.” KnowsWantWritingKindImportantMomentsNextCommonAchieveEffectsPossibilityWillingBasketballShotsDiscoveryFlowLaborOppositesWhat You WantFinding YourselfTranscendencePurposefulness Author:Stephen Dunn
“I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.” FirstsUseCoursesPowerfulBreakConsciousDiscoveryBuiltOppositesPerformancesExtremesTendenciesCharacteristicsUnconsciousPhenomenonBreak ThroughEmergence Book:Psychological Types Source: Psychological Types
“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” LifeFeelsMadeHappinessNatureVirtuePossibilityGratitudeDiscoveryOppositesConvincedOddCheerGardenerSavants Author:Bertrand Russell
“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.” WorldFirstsTruthTurnsDiscoveryOppositesErrorsAssumptionExposureIdentical Author:H. L. Mencken
“Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies” PeopleIfsWorldEndsLife IsCausesWatchesSpecialDiscoveryOppositesWingsButterflyGlobesUnpredictableChaotic Author:Stephen Colbert
“What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.” KindHas BeensScienceBreakGeniusDiscoveryEmptyOppositesBonesNosesEmptinessPocketsRocketsAntithesisGuillotineVaccinationsTrue GeniusEmpty Pockets Book:DON JUAN Source: DON JUAN
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” ShouldScienceDangerPolicyEqualResearchDiscoveryOppositesElitesTechnologicalCaptivesPublic PolicyScientific ResearchScientific DiscoveryMilitary Industrial ComplexFarewell Address Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower