Best opposites & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.”

Trying Problem Painting Opposites Structure Symbolic

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.”

Thinking Want Feels Stills I Can Facts Problem Dies Existence Hell Dying Figures Opposites Bored Bubbles Trapped Doing Nothing Wanting To Die Metaphorical Complete Opposites

Author:Matthew Healy

“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”

Want Art Two Feelings Problem Wealth Balance Art Is Opposites Depth Realism Symbolism Two Opposites

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.”

Problem Body Happens Purpose Turns Christ Effects Opposites Profession Theology Objectives Passive Lame Clergy Receiver Body Of Christ

Author:Christian Smith

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”

Thinking Feels Writing Problem Natural Ability Five Too Much Thousand Opposites Paragraph Natural Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

Thinking Men Should Looks Art Sometimes Problem Moving Used Simple Tree Crazy Fool Genius Smart Opposites Bigger Intelligent Complexes Solve Branches Art And Science Hazy Same Thinking

Author:Albert Einstein

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”

“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Problem Past I Believe Sex Hurt Know How Gay Opposites Function Been Hurt

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.”

Want Doe Problem Conflict Opposites Absence Threatening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.”

Moments Problem Father Jesus Darkness Saws Greater Devil Opposites Reactions Impressed

Author:Bill Johnson

“The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.”

Want Enough Problem Female Opposites Entrepreneur Valleys Women Want Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Michael Arrington

“The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.”

“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

“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”

“Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.”

Problem Worry Opposites Solve Productive

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.”

“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.”

People Knows Believe Doe Real Self Problem Bigs Happens Teach Forever Failing Needed Approach Opposites Strategy Solve Self Confidence Real Life Nerves

Author:Jack Welch

“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.”

States Facts Problem Earth Conditions Strange Opposites Currents Conclusion Characteristics Incomplete Viewpoints Prehistoric

Author:Alfred Wegener

“I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.”

Writing Long Problem Mets Opposites Edits

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.”

Needs Kind Problem Light Happens Night Morning Too Much Missing Bed Adults Opposites Treats Mark Wake Up Rhythm Bright Lights Circadian Rhythm Older Adults

Author:Shelby Harris

“One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.”

World Way Looks Doe Problem Spirit Term Opposites Extraordinary Awakening Realization Carrie Extraordinary Things

Author:Ken Wilber

“The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.”

Problem Talking Opposites Election Campaigns Candidates Presidency Not Talking

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“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.”

“My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.”

Want Giving Kind Problem Wanted Felt Parent Growing Up Growing Fronts Cry Okay Opposites Satisfaction Gross Polar Opposites

Author:Lucas Hedges

“The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.”

Real Problem Serious Opposites Inflation Real Problems Borrowers Deflation

Author:Jack Kemp

“I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.”

People Problem Literature Sex Emotional Opposites Suspects Homosexual Emotional Problems

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.”

Heart Feelings Problem Hate Next Minutes Appreciate Opposites Inconsistent One Minute

Book:Best Foot Forward

Source: Best Foot Forward

“Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from day one, they weren't happy. Someone, whoever made that flyer, must have digitally turned their frowns upside down. They wrote about death. About the evilness of men. About the destruction of-and I quote- "the greenish, bluish orb with wisps of white." Seriously, that's how they descibed it. They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.”

Men Made Ends Problem Earth White Imagine Ten Sitting Destruction Opposites Circles Aliens Abortion Chairs Orange Upside Down Wisps Orbs Flyers Evilness Knocked Up

Author:Jay Asher

“I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?”

Ifs Way Writing Trying I Can Book Ends Problem Past Night Fall Sleep Bed Late Opposites Wake Up Teeth Plot Waking Amazed Brushes Going To Sleep Hooked Bedtime Diving Late Night Falling Asleep

Book:Role Models

Source: Role Models

“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”

“We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.”

“When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.”

Want Looks Problem Faces Nations Military Danger Opposites Nails Hammers Military Power Great Military

Author:Robert Kagan

“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”

“Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.”

Character Problem America Healing Tears Building Football Inspire Laughter Opposites Wit Make Sense Discussion Substitutes Gang Sympathetic Being Funny Building Character

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Kind Ideas Ends Problem Song Situation Concepts Roots Opposites Caring Songwriting Angle Not Caring

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offer—from marriage or lack of marriage, children’s choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problems—they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.”

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