“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.” HumansDoneLightIndividualHuman BeingsInterestingBehindsHistoryRecordsSeaDevelopmentOppositesTreatsImportanceRelationMethodWaveDustHuman LifeStatisticsMassiveHistorianGreySurvivingSelectiveOverestimate Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.” WellsDoeMotherStarsVoiceChurchRecordsMusicianMy FamilyOppositesSingersSoloSopranosBaritones Author:Grace Jones
“Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.” WantPlayHelpingTermRecordsBirthApproachOppositesLeavingPeacefulHelping Someone Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHas BeensImportantWantedChallengesRecordsProduceOppositesRemainsExcuseAssetsMentalitySanctions Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.” WantInterestRecordsOppositesOld Records Author:Michael Gira
“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.” ThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentRealDifferencesRecordsNormalWindowOppositesAlbumsStoresReal LifeDifferent WaysThrownCategoriesIpodsJust SayingRecord StoresPlaylists Author:DJ Spooky
“To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is experiencing it with other people. It doesn't translate onto your phone. It's about being present.” PeopleJoyRecordsOppositesTheaterPhonesTranslateBeing ThereIphone Author:Cate Blanchett
“To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation.” IfsShouldMayDoeSaidStatesReasonFeelingsSpiritualChurchNumbersRecordsGenerationsConditionsCenturyJudgingHolyOppositesScriptureNewspapersDoctrineOrthodoxSquaresPersuasionEmphasisNever ChangeHoly Scriptures Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsHumansHas BeensBookDreamMightPsychologyRecordsHuman NatureLettersOppositesScientistTreatsClaimsWake UpSelfishNewspapersWickedSomedayEvolutionary PsychologyResearchersFlatteringLove One AnotherHistory BooksBad DreamKnavery Author:Steven Pinker
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” WayMayDifferentPainRememberForgetRecordsPaintingPhotographyOppositesPhotographPainterDifferent ThingsCapturing A Moment Photography Author:John Berger
“Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'” PeopleIfsThinkingMatterPlayFactsRecordsDogTvsGayMy FriendsOppositesHip HopHipsHopsRapperMatter Of FactGay PeopleMarriage Equality Author:Kanye West
“So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.” WayReasonChristianRecordsOppositesIrrationalSkepticUnreasonableUnbeliefIrrationality Author:Greg Koukl
“I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'” IfsNeedsWritingYearsI CanRealSongThreeDarkBehindsLaughingRecordsDoorsStageMarriedOppositesDivorceReal LifeComedianThree YearsBeing In LoveDarlingWriting SongsClosed DoorsCarefreeBehind Closed Doors Author:Adele