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“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

“1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.”

Men Firsts Humor Funny Moving Waiting Sides Men And Women Opposites Valentine Valentine's Day

Author:Kristen Schaal

“Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.”

People Thinking Children Bigs Grows Waiting Careers Kindness College Late Percent Opposites Bottom Cruelty Remove Brutal Mortgage

Author:Jack Welch

“For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.”

Ends Jobs Next Speak Waiting Attention Talking Listening Opposites Divides Mediocre

Book:To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Source: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

“High fidelity is a rich experience, and you'll put up with terrible convenience to get it - maybe it's high cost, waiting in line, jumping through hoops. High convenience is the opposite - it's a commodity, but it's cheap and easy and ubiquitous. A great exclusive boutique shop is high fidelity; Wal-Mart is high convenience. Both are hard to establish in their own way. The thing to remember about sustaining either is that you can't sit still. Some other entity will always find a way to challenge your fidelity position or your convenience position.”

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

Inspirational Humor Funny Hope Waiting Silence Talking Listening Expectations Opposites Luck Memorable Coaching Talking And Listening

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

Care Next Stars Waiting Empty Opposites Corners Spots

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.”

Wanted Wish Waiting Common Opposites Contrary My Sister Wishing For Something

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Heart May Said Would Be Today Hate Jesus Winning Waiting Church Love Is Honest Opposites Indifference Abstract Indifferent Those Who Wait Wait For Him

Book:Black Blood

Source: Black Blood

“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”

Ifs Men Years Said Done Hands Wanted Waiting Hours Behinds Known Five Circumstances Late Opposites Constant Five Years Too Late Steel Caution Hammers Realised Boyhood Good Woman Hammered Behind My Back

Book:Eona

Source: Eona

“The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.”

Knows Believe Sometimes Moments Waiting Known Elements Opposites Various Perpetual Antithesis

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.”

Knows Feels Trying Heart May Book Sometimes Use Inspiration Faith Jesus Speak Waiting Hurt Mistake Impossible Heard Love You Danger Devil Opposites So Sad Cleaving Loving Words

Author:Mother Teresa