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Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.Collection: Opposites
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.Collection: Opposites
You know, it's not my film [Valerian], it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.Collection: Opposites
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.Collection: Opposites
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.Collection: Opposites
Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.Collection: Opposites
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.Collection: Opposites
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.Collection: Opposites
We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.Collection: Opposites
He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinionCollection: Opposites
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.Collection: Opposites
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.Collection: Opposites
She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.Collection: Opposites
Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.Collection: Opposites
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.Collection: Opposites
I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.Collection: Opposites
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.Collection: Opposites
Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.Collection: Opposites
If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.Collection: Opposites
For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.Collection: Opposites
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.Collection: Opposites
I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.Collection: Opposites
Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.Collection: Opposites
It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.Collection: Opposites
Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.Collection: Opposites
Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.Collection: Opposites
I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.Collection: Opposites
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.Collection: Opposites
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.Collection: Opposites
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.Collection: Opposites
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.Collection: Opposites
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.Collection: Opposites
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.Collection: Opposites
Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.Collection: Opposites
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.Collection: Opposites
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?Collection: Opposites
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.Collection: Opposites
What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Opposites
What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Every action has an equal and opposite reactionCollection: Opposites
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.Collection: Opposites
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.Collection: Opposites
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.Collection: Opposites
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.Collection: Opposites
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.Collection: Opposites
Everything is known through its opposite.Collection: Opposites
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.Collection: Opposites