“For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.” EnoughKidsOppositesAbundanceScarcity Author:Brené Brown
“You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.” PersonsKidsJobsCulturePayTaxesMarriedOppositesGenderRadicalAlternativesRebelFreakVirginsPumpsCounter Culture Author:Mark Driscoll
“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.” KidsMotherFatherFeltDangerousFootballQuietOppositesBaseballProfessionBoxersMother And Father Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“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.” IfsKnowsShouldWellsPlayWould BeKidsUsedChoicesGamesDifficultAnimalVirtueOppositesSnowDisappointingCockroachesLeopardsSnow Leopards Author:Daniel Craig
“The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.” PeopleIdeasStatesBigsKidsEffortBehindsHugeIllusionCapacityOppositesNotionAffairCurrentsGreekDelusionLiving OnOld Ideas Author:James Hillman
“Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.” WayWantKidsValuesGoalOppositesWhat You WantVegetarian Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.” LittlesTwoKidsAgeSidesDecisionCreativeMinutesOppositesMarkHopefullyEmailLittle KidCreeps Author:Jason Blum
“It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.” PeopleReasonDoneUseKidsChristianJobsYoungGrowsSidesChurchPoorChristianityGrowing UpEnvironmentTeachingCollegeOppositesUniversityAtheistVariousWork OutSettingRationalSettingsHumanistSecularRationalityWebsiteWorldviewCampusChristian FaithUnderstatementCollege Campus Author:Charles Colson
“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.” IfsThinkingWayI CanKidsPastUsedEnergyEasyHurtGoneStageDadJokesNegativeOppositesMy DadNegative Energy Author:Derrick Rose
“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.” IfsWantWritingHandsKidsSchoolSubjectsComputerOppositesWhat You WantAbstractEssaysLabsProcessing Author:Seymour Papert
“You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'” WellsLooksEndsKidsThreeStuffVoiceHealthyBandOppositesSecureGreat MarriageComplete OppositesWestlifeHealthy Kids Author:Shane Filan
“Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.” ThinkingKindEnoughKidsSchoolTeacherLessonsLuckyOppositesUniversityLeagueHarvardIvyBest TeacherIvy LeagueHarvard UniversityIvy League Schools Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.” LittlesCountryKidsSongCitiesGrewGrew UpOppositesTownsHipsBellsSaturday Author:Paul Weller
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.” WorldBelieveLittlesKidsAgeTogetherMotherMagicFoolOppositesLiarsVillainDictionaryEncyclopedia Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them” WorldChildrenDoeBookKidsFatherDifficultDealsDarknessIssuesIgnoranceProtectOppositesOur ChildrenVulnerableCensorshipCensoringCensoring Books Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.” RealKidsFunLessonsOppositesHangover Author:Jeff Sampson
“I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.” HardCharacterKidsNamesGrowing UpGrowingEffectsBuildingOppositesCoachesBuilding Character Author:Steve Carell
“The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.” KidsMovingWalkingOrdinaryOppositesHallsTidesBishopsKatarina Bishop Book:Heist Society Source: Heist Society
“Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.” KidsRichCollegeKingsOpposites Author:Ozzy Osbourne