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“In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained”

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“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.”

“When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.”

Important Culture Wealth Teach Opposites

Author:Orrin Woodward

“History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.”

Source: Killosophy

“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”

Important Facts America Interesting Opinion Pages Decided Opposites Method Print Cleaning Editorials Ignoring Facts

Author:Herbert Bayard Swope

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

Important Philosophy Sides Streets Opposites Guides

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.”

Ifs Important Helping Community Effects Lucky Opposites Luck Fortune Generosity Generous Good Fortune Inviting Away From You

Author:Twyla Tharp

“The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.”

May Persons Two Important Wish Emotion Tears Opposites Shame Guilt Distinction Confession Humiliation Shame And Guilt

Author:Paul Ekman

“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.”

“I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Important Care Balance Opposites Overcoming Performers

Author:Erin Davie

“I'm excited about mobile; clearly that's important. Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. We're excited at the idea that we can make the same kind of contribution in the mobile space. So that's one thing coming down the pike.”

Kind Important Ideas Ends Can Do Space One Thing Amount Fairs Opposites Excited Contribution Devices Mobile

Author:Mitchell Baker

“One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.”

Persons Important Problem Together Opinion Issues Groups Subjects Position Solutions Opposites Motivated Holocaust Scholar Clarification

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”

Ifs Knows Two Important Sometimes Hard Facts Heaven Stuff Pay Fantasy Opposites Driving Gears Cogs

Author:Fynn

“With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.”

Important Strong Sides Arms Exercise Opposites Balls Rounds Legs Core Bugs Fencing

Author:Mariel Zagunis

“A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!”

Thinking Years Wells Important One Day Thousand Opposites Important Things Superiors Sheep Thousand Years Tigers Tibetan

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You get notes from two studios and a network instead of a studio and a network. Although we early on forced them all to do their notes together. I make them all talk to each other first. Because we went through the pains of getting notes from ABC and at the time it was Touchstone, that were opposite - and then CBS notes that were opposite again. So it was, you guys are going to have to work it out as to what is the most important note.”

Firsts Two Important Pain Together Guy Opposites Notes Studios Working It Touchstones

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.”

Two Important Law Sex Animal Members Opposites Ancient Taboo Intercourse Prohibition Clans Totems

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.”

Two Important Play Film Moving Three Actors Lines One Thing Opposites Moving Parts

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.”

Children Important Government Left Opposites Unions Monopoly True Education

Author:John Stossel

“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

“I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.”

People Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Important Wanted Challenges Records Produce Opposites Remains Excuse Assets Mentality Sanctions

Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.”

Want Littles Important Shows Today Artist My Own Fashion Style Opposites Performances Who I Am New Artists

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.”

People Thinking Knows Way Important Young Used Mother Speak Lucky Stones Opposites Starting Young Women Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.”

Knows Want Mind Important Matter Guy Justice Opposites Absolutes No Matter What Important Things Brando

Author:Johnny Depp

“An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.”

World Important Would Be Action Easy Process Opposites Absolutes Relative Irrelevant

Author:Robert Thurman

“Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.”

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Author:Ian Bogost

“We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'”

Knows Important Certain Attitude Adults Skins Opposites Longing Beer Wrinkles

Author:Robert Bly

“I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.”

“Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.”

Men World Important Three Sides Strange Hair One Day Decided Opposites Details Mustache Small Man

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!”

Believe Important Fall Courses Easy Opposites Determine Traps

Book:Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

Source: Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.”

Heart Important Wisdom Emotional Unique Opposites Triumph Emotional Intelligence Intersections

Author:David Caruso

“There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.”

Love Important Romance Friendship Differences Demand Opposites Delight Extremes Former Latter Love And Friendship Friend Valentine

Author:Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

“If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”

Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution

“The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.”

World Way Life Humans Important Self Today Race Break Opposites And Love Shining Casts Human Race Spells Sweetness Reflecting Live For Today

Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.”

Way Believe Humans Has Beens Important Moments Seems Age Certain Cases Missing Information Ignorance Revolution Opposites Who We Are Possessed Explosions

Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature

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