“It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.” MindFlowOppositesIncomeAxes Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“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
“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” CourageFlowOppositesFishesConformityCowardice Author:Jim Hightower
“Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.” PeopleThinkingJoyDespairFlowRiversOppositesPainfulConnectedDenial Author:Eve Ensler
“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
“In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.” MayDoeDifferentBodyRunningActionFacesLawUniverseFlowerEqualFlowOppositesTablesPhysicsCirclesReactionsClockProvokingArrangementsParallelsFluidMoleculesSkipSuspendedLaws Of PhysicsParallel Universe Book:Girl, Interrupted Source: Girl, Interrupted
“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.” SoulEnergyMusicTasteFlowOppositesLoyaltyYearningOne DirectionPolarityEnergy Flow Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.” TryingUseBodyEnergyForceEffectsFlowOppositesTensionMusclesRelaxedAttemptingBrutesBrute Force Author:Bruce Lee