Quotes with polar-opposite

Quotes 41 till 60 of 117.

  • Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brooke Shields I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brad Feld If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Lipton If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Alejandro Amenabar In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Dale In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sydney Smith It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ba Jin Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, Comrade, don't worry and you will recover. As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, You will die. I can be of no more help.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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