Best opposites & quality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.”

Source: A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom

“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.”

“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.”

“Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”

May Running Poor Quality Economy Rich Opposites Competence Meanness

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.”

Humans May Art Different Together Law Quality Limits Opposites Distance Boundaries Rational Fixed Enjoyment Consistent Contradiction Providence Gratification Passing Away

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.”

Needs Spiritual Certain Quality Opposites Practicals Like Me Interiors Materialistic Miami Moody Flair

Author:Iggy Pop

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

Way Pain Pleasure Acting Quality Moral Virtue Opposites Relation Assuming Vices Best Way Pain And Pleasure Moral Virtues Nicomachean Ethics

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”

Care Individual Quality Effects Opposites Access Debate Health Care Improving Obamacare Shameful Degradation Quality Care

Author:Fred Upton

“Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.”

Two Quality Opposites Manifestation Opposition Manifest One Time Qualified Concealing Two Opposites

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj

“The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.”

Ideas Wanted Three Quality Clear Cutting Minutes Rocks Stones Opposites Studios Exemplary

Author:Jon Landau

“A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.”

Together Girl Strong Interesting Quality Opposites Independent Sensual Feminine Charming Independent Women Strong Independent Women Bond Girl

Author:Olga Kurylenko

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.”

Mind Two Quality Habit Opposites Prejudice Bias Novelty Biased

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”

Knows Should Mind May Able Religious Quality Know How Opposites Dare Faithful Unnecessary Humane Merciful Framed Good Quality

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.”

“If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?”

Ifs Way Believe Ends Sometimes Lying Certain Order Fall Energy Quality Opposites And Love Falling In Love Beloved Pessimism Cynicism Spectrum Exaggeration Habitual Coups Love Lies

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.”

“If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

Ifs Want War Quality Yoga Negative Opposites Overcoming Deny Sweat Overcoming Fear

Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”

Mind Wells May Character Seems Able Religious Quality Opposites Faithful Sincere Humane Merciful

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

Way Attitude Quality Middle Achieve Source Balance Opposites Buddhist Contradiction Distinctive Synthesis Middle Way

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.”

Order Politics Quality Liberty Pride Goodness Opposites Connected Libertarian Cruelty Libertarianism Cunning Power Of Love

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

“Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.”

Men Wells Care Together Science Quality Known Produce Health Exercise Eating Opposites Working Together Possessing Eating Alone

Author:Hippocrates

“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

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