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opposites funny-things envy
Robert M. Pirsig The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
opposites differences judging
Virginia Woolf The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.
opposites water gold
Rebecca Solnit 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.
opposites people profound
Jake Gyllenhaal I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.
opposites views tolerance
Mahatma Gandhi Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
opposites rivers smell
James Richardson It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.
opposites play dumb
Kurt Tucholsky The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
opposites tragedy investing
Friedrich August von Hayek Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
tragedy skinny sage
Richelle Mead ..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.
tragedy may realizing
Reinhold Niebuhr The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
tragedy links ruins
William Manchester It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.
tragedy culture warning
William McDonough Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.
tragedy hungry hours
Virginia Woolf Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
tragedy faces looks
Saul Alinsky Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
tragedy purpose behinds
Robin Roberts The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.
tragedy purpose purpose-driven-life
Rick Warren The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
tragedy want happy-endings
William Dean Howells What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
investing people terrific
Debra Smith I think it is terrific to see people investing in our youth.
investing reinventing-yourself reinventing
Reid Hoffman You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
investing certainty
Robert Rubin The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
investing ears tvs
Warren Buffett Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.
investing remember depressive
Warren Buffett Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.
investing profit-margin looks
Warren Buffett Look for companies with high profit margins.
investing
Warren Buffett We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
investing more-money
Warren Buffett Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
investing investment fund
Warren Buffett By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.