“Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'” FormResultsResponsibilityGreaterOppositesDelightGods WillRemoveComplete Opposites Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.” IfsWorldHeartSeemsEarthDesirePurposeWaterWealthResultsFireCreationThis WorldPrideConsciousOppositesLongingAddSatisfactionTreasureEaseFuelHonourConsumerismThirstOverconsumptionPetrolThirst For God Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh
“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” ResultsKeysActivityOppositesIncreaseStressProductivityTime ManagementImprovingOutput Author:Paul Gauguin
“The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.” NaturalPerfectResultsOppositesHarmonyUnionsComplementaryPerfect Harmony Author:Stefan Zweig
“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.” ThinkingWantIdeasFormResultsSupportAchieveDesignColorDisciplineOppositesResponsePredeterminedHesitant Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.” FatherStrongSexUnderstandingLinesResultsOppositesRaisedGrandmotherMapsMaryGypsy Author:Cherie Lunghi
“The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.” LongActionSufferingResultsSunBenefitsOppositesHarmOperationsHeatDryMudHardenedLong Suffering Author:Theodoret
“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.” WorldMindMatterWholeRealitySuccessLife IsSpiritTermPerfectResultsWorryFailureOppositesFundamentalsUnityUnhappinessTranquilityDualityLife HappinessSuccess Or FailureMind And MatterTrue Reality Author:Tom Hoover
“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.” IfsThinkingWorldFirstsBelieveResultsCompanyFocusDutyReturnCitizensSolutionsOppositesCome UpGenuineConsumersImprovingShareholdersFiduciary Author:Paul Polman
“The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.” IdeasMightResultsTeacherTeachingTomorrowTestsOppositesNot Interested Author:Noam Chomsky
“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.” IfsWorldDifferentRealBeliefLinesResultsUnderstoodLogicOppositesAbsolutesMathematicsEqualityCirclesAssumptionReal WorldIdenticalStraight Lines Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result.” EndsSpiritualForceResultsExpressionOppositesFoundationDoctrineDoomedOrganizational Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.” EndsFormIndividualGoalResultsEnemySupportIdentityDiversityDestructionOppositesIronicEnd ResultsRacial Identity Author:Arthur Kemp
“People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.” PeopleGivingCareResultsToo MuchJudgingGiving UpOppositesI Care Author:Greg Maddux
“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?” HumansCausesGoalResultsActivityOppositesRealizationTrue NatureHuman Activity Book:Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays
“What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.” PeopleIfsActionPoliticalDecisionResultsAttitudeLibertyOppositesPropertyEvolveOwnershipPollsCompulsionPolitical ActionLevityBarricadesOwnership And Control Book:Skinny Legs and All Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.” PeopleIfsMayIdeasEndsFactsWisdomRealityFacesUsedValuesResultsStruggleAchieveDependsOppositesWorthlessPersonal Relationships Author:Thomas Merton
“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.” MindDecisionResultsCommonOppositesCommon SenseConclusionReasoningJustifyLogicalSuspectsInfrastructureTemperament Author:Julian Barnes
“In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.” FirstsStatesJobsUnitedResultsLeaderUnited StatesStudyFiveTypeHigherExercisePercentOppositesProfitStoresChainsDataEmployeeGrantsInitiativePassiveIntrovertColleaguesProceduresPizzaIntrovertedExtroverts Author:Susan Cain
“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.” MindSelfMotivationResultsHumilityEgoPaperAnxietyOppositesErrorsCalmWork Out Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.” PersonsHopeInterestResultsNumbersMistakeSacrificeProduceExpectationsAdvantageOppositesInfinitePropertyAvariceDoubtfulGreat Future Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.” IfsMenWantDoeHappensCareResultsResearchOppositesMirrorsOperationsConfusedChemicalsWant SomethingExaminationInventorMeasurementMirror Image Author:Reginald Fessenden