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“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.”

People World Play Whole Religion Games Water Opposites Infinite Surface Whole World Rising Infinity Bubbles Rise Above Duality Brahman Dissolving

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.”

People Thinking Guy Next Games Views Opposites Majority Hotel Vacation Next Day Teammate Hotel Lobby Business Trips

Author:Kevin Durant

“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

“Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Play Would Be Kids Used Choices Games Difficult Animal Virtue Opposites Snow Disappointing Cockroaches Leopards Snow Leopards

Author:Daniel Craig

“You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.”

Thinking World Feels Trying Actors Games Imagination Opposites Weight Costumes Without You

Author:Ray Winstone

“My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.”

People Has Beens Hard Bigs Games Winning Opposites Accomplishment Tennis Popularity Reverse Get Money Tennis Game

Author:Andre Agassi

“It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling.”

Knows Mind Kind Art Two Fall Games Process Strange Opposites Flying Spinning Polar Opposites Mind Boggling Two Opposites

Author:Dean Potter

“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”

Next Games Felt Alive Objects Opposites Sake Convinced Narrative Staying New Things Staying Alive Pinball

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.”

Giving Games Five Percent Opposites Being Yourself Ems Bragging

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.”

Thinking Men Two Play Seems Games Player Football Basketball Approach Opposites Contempt Equipment Underwear American Football Collide Tractors

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud