Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

Anne Hathaway

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

Richard Bach

We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.

Renee Fleming

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

Thomas Paine

Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.

Thomas Sowell

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Thomas Sowell

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Thomas Piketty

Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

Thomas Piketty

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Rob Marshall

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.

Ray Lewis

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

Simone Weil

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Simon Sinek

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

Tim Gane

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

Ruth Benedict

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Rudolf Arnheim

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Thomas Malthus

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Thomas Merton

Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?

Tony Judt

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Roman Coppola

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

Ron Perlman

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

Susan Orlean

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Susan Cain

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Sting

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Steve Earle

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tom Hodgkinson

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

Tom Stoppard

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Tim LaHaye

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Tim Ferriss

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.