“Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.” DifferentValuesConsciousnessAwarenessDrugPerceptionOppositesAddictionPatternsQuestioningRepetitionExaminationReconstructionDissolving Author:Terence McKenna
“Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.” KnowsWayValuesFallSpeakOppositesClosest Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be, to realise as sacred art anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.” LittlesArtPurposeValuesHolyShapesOppositesSacredIntentionWorthyRealisingPitifulSacred Art Author:Antoni Tapies
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.” ValuesBlackGreaterTeamYouthHairAppreciateTasksOppositesSillyChineseFasterObsessedAssumptionGreyRatiosBlack HairGrey Hair Author:Ilana Mercer
“I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in my values and beliefs from any other atheist. On both sides of the political spectrum, one can find the neo-conservative Objectivists and the ultra-liberal Communists, both of whom hate each other. These two factions take up nearly opposite sets of values, yet both are comprised of unabashed atheists.” BelieveMayTwoPoliticalValuesHateBeliefSidesAtheismOppositesAtheistConservativeCommunistBoth SidesSpectrumFactionsUltrasPolitical Spectrum Author:Richard Carrier
“Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.” RealTodayValuesBitsOppositesIntentionBunchProgrammingDiamondDirtMining Author:Charles Simonyi
“Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.” WayWantKidsValuesGoalOppositesWhat You WantVegetarian Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.” PeopleGivingShouldMayMeanRealValuesCoursesLostGrowthStepsSecuritySafeDemandGiving UpOppositesPatternsSurrenderFamiliarTemporaryNew Words Author:Gail Sheehy
“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
“I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.” PeopleThinkingMayImportantIdeasDifferentPhilosophyHelpingCareActionPoliticalValuesCausesSidesDifferencesViewsSpeechLosingOppositesSightIndependenceHarmIdeologySpectrumHumannessDifferent IdeasDisadvantagedPolitical Spectrum Author:Mark Coleman
“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
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” IfsHas BeensReasonValuesWaterEconomyElementsAll ThingsGoldOppositesMetaphorLockedEcologyLocked UpMobilityFluidity Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.” PeopleWantKindValuesAcceptingOppositesSickAbsolutesTheatreQuittingDepartmentAshamedScareNot AfraidApplauseI QuitRave Author:J. D. Salinger
“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.” ThinkingKnowsLooksLongSaidTwoHandsLife IsValuesForeverImpossibleDependsWasteShotsAppreciateOppositesYou ChooseToo ShortLife Is ShortDay LifeSqueezingTwo Opposites Book:The Truth About Forever Source: The Truth About Forever
“Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.” IfsThinkingTryingCareAmericaValuesCan DoCommunityEnvironmentMovementBirdOppositesEnvironmentalFishesTake CareArguingPatrioticRecognizingInfrastructureOur CommunityUncoolMost Patriotic Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.