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“Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?”

Ifs Want Made Wanted Our Lives Waste Opposites Strive Our Time

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.”

Ifs Evil Sex Members Opposites Attractive

Author:Charlie Munger

“People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Asks I Believe Negative Opposites I Believe In Ask Me Astrology Batteries Volt

Author:John Patrick Shanley

“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

“Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.”

Ifs Should Trying Wells Important My Own Rooms Practice Opposites Realization Alternatives Phrases Routes

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.”

Ifs World Believe Kind Belief Attitude Forever Possibility Opposites Commit Traps Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”

Ifs Government Known Wise Crime Despair Opposites Complaining Foolish Complaints Peril Messengers Grievance Offenders Petitions

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.”

Ifs Ideas Darkness Unique Okay Opposites Scared Usual Darkest Times

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“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

“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.”

“It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.”

People Ifs Want Two Different Enough Artist Differences Huge Opposites Realising Frustrating Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.”

Ifs Knows Persons Actors Break Letting Go Comfortable Draws Okay Opposites Harder Luck Honestly Insecurity Breaking Down Respect Me

Author:James Wolk

“If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Kids Past Used Energy Easy Hurt Gone Stage Dad Jokes Negative Opposites My Dad Negative Energy

Author:Derrick Rose

“The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).”

Ifs Want Two Spiritual Used Accepting Poverty Materials Circumstances Opposites Financial Refuse Riches Estates Two Roads

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.”

Ifs Sex Gay Opposites Errors

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.”

Ifs Giving Two Lying Evil Natural Secret Rights Balance Goodness Opposites Extremes Recognition Good And Evil Pairs Excess Insufficient Contending Two Extremes

Author:Dion Fortune

“Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.”

Ifs Want Writing Hands Kids School Subjects Computer Opposites What You Want Abstract Essays Labs Processing

Author:Seymour Papert

“The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Might Hate Love Is Amount Hatred Opposites Apathy Consumed

Author:Marilyn Manson

“If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.”

Ifs Life Is Alive Opposites Noise

Author:Mel Brooks

“If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.”

Ifs Thinking Trouble Band Opposites Horse

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Ends Culture Silence Break Violence Wall Opposites Police Blue Decades Police Violence

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.”

People Ifs Want Persons My Own Opposites Want Me You Want Me If You Want Me Complete Opposites

Author:Fetty Wap

“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.”

People Ifs Mean Persons Ideas Hard Bigs Inspiration Motivation Differences Inspire Hard Work Opposites Conclusion Carrie Where You Are Motivated Reverse Interfere

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.”

Ifs Book Dream Opposites Dozen Starving

Author:Ian Christe

“There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.”

Ifs Artist Produce Perception Opposites

Author:Beck

“If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.”

Ifs Believe Today Social Groups Events Tomorrow Negative Opposites Mood Locals Welcome Bias Rejecting

Author:John L. Casti

“One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.”

Ifs Interest Acting Opposites Blind Loyalty Absurd Propose Public Interest

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.”

“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”

Ifs Felt Goal Steps Clear Written Needed Opposites Accounts Wings Setting Settings Reasoning Setting Goals Overachiever Written Goals

Author:Edwina Findley

“The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.”

Ifs Needs Running Streets Opposites Complicated Rap Plenty Budgets Expensive Documentation

Author:Frank Gehry

“Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.”

Ifs Men States Feelings He Man Duty Opposites Oneself Nevertheless Inclination Insensible

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Hillary Clinton cannot be honest, in a nationwide campaign, about what she's gonna do. She wouldn't get 30% of the vote, maybe 40, if she did. Just like Obama didn't. Obama didn't campaign on 90% of the stuff that he ended up doing. Quite the opposite, in fact.”

Ifs Facts Stuff Honest Opposites Vote Clinton Campaigns Being Honest

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the former sound very much as if they are afflicted with the kind of contrarianism inevitably bred by cultural orthodoxy - Dylan is overwhelmingly rated a giant and a marvel, the acclamation of whom they feel to be de rigueur; and rather than judge for themselves, they embrace the opposite view.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Care Sound Views Judging Opposites Embrace Don't Care Former Giants Bob Dylan Orthodoxy

Author:David Bennun

“I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.”

“Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.”

Ifs Wells Matter Facts Use Might Certain Term Cases Sky Type Behavior Tests Opposites Threat Radio Administration Dirty Excess Ruling Airline Matter Of Fact Dirty Words Extortion

Author:Frank Zappa

“If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't work it out then I would say let us work it out for you. Let's look at the lives people are able to lead, the effect of policies on the lives people are able to lead, and hence the likely effect on health and health inequalities.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Able Cutting Effects Policy Opposites Arguing Inequality Working It Economist

Author:Michael Marmot

“If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see what evil is, it just says that "evil is the opposite of good." And if you ask "Then what is good?" it says that it's the opposite of evil.”

Ifs Want Evil Asks Morality Opposites Dictionary

Author:Gaspar Noe

“I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.”

Ifs War Happens Wish Opposites Aggressors Bosnians

Author:Gaspar Noe

“If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.”

Ifs Opposites Assuming Newspapers Barack Boss Often Is

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.”

Ifs Want Would Be Turns Easy Sides Movement Wall Trump Victory My Friends My Family Hatred Opposites Let Me Refuse Screens Consumed Antidote Grounding Great Victory Replica

Author:Van Jones

“The Russians were doing a lot of rotten things, you can point to them. But the idea that if you consider what Hans Morgenthau called "I called abuse of reality," the picture of the world was almost the opposite of what they presented. But somehow this sells and is continually repeated, at least in this kind of situation.”

Ifs World Kind Ideas Reality Situation Opposites Abuse Sells Rotten

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.”

Ifs Children Opposites Our Children Spots Faster Your Children Hypocrisy Inconsistent

Author:Charles Koch

“Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians.”

Ifs Done Effort Clear Century Example Opposites Accounts Historical Israel Kingdoms Authenticity Hills Biblical Vague Scholarship Resemblance Archaeology

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.”

“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.”

Ifs Men Doe Two Would Be Spiritual Spirituality Interest Opposites Two Things Selfless Providence Lots Of Money Cricket Commentary Endorsements

Author:Imran Khan

“Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.”

“If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.”

People Ifs Views Steps Opposites Point Of View Intimate Tension Intimate Relationships

Author:Connie Zweig

“There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.”

Ifs Giving Facts Stories Able Order Shapes Standing Opposites Chaos Satisfying Standing Out

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying I Can Ends Form Wish Term Plans Opposites

Author:Elaine Equi

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