“I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family.” ThinkingTryingCompanySawsMiddleMy FamilyOppositesMarkIndependentBusImpressNieceUndercoverMy NieceMiley Author:Jeremy Piven
“We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.” WayPersonsSaidFallNextIndividualSportsLinesSawsOppositesAdmireCourageousCowardConformityNext TimeCompensationBe CourageousNightingales Author:Bob Proctor
“I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.” PeopleSexCommunitySawsMembersOppositesRamaCelibacy Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” MomentsProblemFatherJesusDarknessSawsGreaterDevilOppositesReactionsImpressed Author:Bill Johnson
“I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.” WaySawsHollywoodOppositesMovedDisadvantages Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.” LongHas BeensValuesTermSawsHugeOppositesRedemptionManagersThings To DoRight ThingCashLiquid Author:Seth Klarman
“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” WorldLifeHeartWisdomBigsPainGirlSawsInspireMy HeartOppositesBig Sur Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.” TryingFacesNextSawsWeekOne DayShadowOppositesMovedDisappearNext TimeOutlinesShutters Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.” WarCountryAmericaFightingSawsPiecesHappenedOppositesDictatorTubes Author:Madeleine Albright
“I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.” IndividualSportsPerfectCreativeSawsTeamStyleCreationOppositesEndlessThis DayCaptainsSkateboarding Author:Rodney Mullen