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“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.”

Thinking World Heart Guy Cutting Opposites Clean Decent Complete Opposites

Author:A. J. McLean

“People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.”

People Thinking Guy Next Games Views Opposites Majority Hotel Vacation Next Day Teammate Hotel Lobby Business Trips

Author:Kevin Durant

“Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.”

Thinking Two Reality Term Christ Natural Failing Concepts Opposites Ultimate Originals Sacred Unity Rational Realms Static Profane

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

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Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.”

People Thinking Life Inspirational Motivational Success Process Positive Failure Opposites Being Successful Success In Life Inspirational Success

Author:Randy Gage

“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

“Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

Thinking Buddhism Becoming Mindfulness Opposites Angry Finding Yourself Jealous Frustrated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Thinking Trying Company Saws Middle My Family Opposites Mark Independent Bus Impress Niece Undercover My Niece Miley

Author:Jeremy Piven

“You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.”

Thinking Needs Stills Facts Accepting Love You Yoga Opposites Love Yourself Bhakti Yoga Still Love You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.”

Thinking Should Age Forget Citizens Opposites Metaphor Experiments Our Thoughts New Age Expanding Discouraging Calculations Analogies Pivotal

Author:Tony Rothman

“Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.”

People Thinking Giving Facts Shows Opinion Tvs Opposites Majority Tv Shows Worthless Personal Opinions

Author:William O'Neil

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“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.”

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Author:Matthew Healy

“Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.”

People Thinking Made Sadness Opposites Hypocrisy

Author:Elif Safak

“I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.”

Thinking Mean Two Home Able Next Impossible Opposites Two Things Nonsense Pulling Unlimited Next Day Looking Forward Confronting Cambridge Generalities

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.”

People Thinking World Facts Dies Views Effort Opposites Prejudice Tendencies Conform

Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.”

People Thinking Writing Ideas Feelings Might Running Dies Asks Morning One Day Opposites Wake Up Ask Me Dry Drawers

Author:Woody Allen

“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

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Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“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.”

Thinking Want Ideas Form Results Support Achieve Design Color Discipline Opposites Response Predetermined Hesitant

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.”

People Thinking Should Work Talking Balance Opposites Phrases Work Life Balance Life Balance

Author:Patrick Dixon

“You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Facts Stories Might Film Cases Listening Opposites Convinced Tales Outcomes Cautionary Tales

Author:Errol Morris

“It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.”

Thinking Years May Character Order Opportunity Waiting Fashion Opposites Crowds Strength Of Character

Book:Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part V - Analysis of The Income Account. The Earnings Factor in Common-Stock Valuation

Source: Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part V - Analysis of The Income Account. The Earnings Factor in Common-Stock Valuation

“No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about things in the future that haven't happened yet, and people have a hard time believing what's gonna happen. Secondly, I'm almost always a contrarian, whatever direction everybody else is going in, I'm probably figuring out a way to go in a completely opposite direction.”

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Author:Trip Hawkins

“I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.”

Thinking Middle Models Opposites Victim Extremes Spectrum Perpetrators Christine Chad

Author:Neil LaBute

“And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.”

Thinking Comedy Opposites Harder Ladylike

Author:Wanda Sykes

“A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.”

People Thinking Opposites Attractive Salesman Salesperson

Author:John Turturro

“I don't think anything is the opposite of love.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.”

People Thinking Soul Seems Opposites Cameras Photographer Convinced Stealing Affected

Book:Permutations on the picturesque

Source: Permutations on the picturesque

“Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

“Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.”

People Thinking Different Stories Might Rocks Band Opposites Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Criticize Rock Music Different Genres

Author:Conor Oberst

“What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.”

Thinking Heart Doe Book Helping Might Fun Imagine Trouble Opposites Notes Ice Ease Help Me Privacy Delicious One Direction Journaling Note Book

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”

People Thinking Looks Mean Long Lost Interest Style Goes On Clothes Opposites Affair Flirting

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Feelings Might Would Be Moving Leadership Information Ten Years Ago Opposites Intuition Being True Guts Logical Ironic Leading Me One Direction Gut Feelings

Author:Donna Shalala

“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Might Artist Car Possibility Painting Opposites Accounts Tables Invisible Manage Visuals Engineers Sculpture Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Richard Tuttle

“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”

Thinking Writing Kind Character Artist Interesting Creating Opposites Clean Activism Contradiction Activist Odds Palate Creating Characters

Author:Eve Ensler

“I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Challenges Audience Opposites Commit Frightened Lots Of Money Really True Confidence And Courage

Author:Claire Danes

“I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.”

“The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.”

Thinking Mind May Made Belief Ready Authority Conscious Opposites Horrible Experts Tempted Horrible Experience Thinking Clearly

Author:Susan Stebbing

“I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.”

Thinking Kind I Can Sometimes Lines Stage Opposites Absolutes Ignorant Arrogant Absolute Power

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.”

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Author:Rihanna

“I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.”

Thinking World Believe I Believe Can Do Design Taste Opposites Saved Vulgar Good Taste Cursing Bad Taste Distasteful

Author:Kanye West

“Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.”

Thinking War Opposites Optimistic Going To War

Author:George W. Bush

“The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.”

Thinking World Feels Facts Sex Taken Media Drink Members Opposites Drinking Granted Teenager Awkward Teenage Taken For Granted Unsure

Author:Louis Sachar

“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

“The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it's a valid thing. It's a valid forum and I'm not going say that they aren't valid feelings. But it's sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it's sad that it's used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity.”

People Thinking Want Feelings Seems Used House Internet Safe Opposites Mentality Negativity Considering Jerk Lashes Forums Overzealous

Author:Chris Gethard

“Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your interactions,strenght of character and how diverse and interesting you can be. You are MORE than shy. Don't be labeled, be what you wanna be in any given moment. And DO what WORKS, not what you think you are.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Moments Character Courses Given Interesting Opposites Excuse Shy Be You Interaction Diverse Strenght

Author:Matthew Hussey

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