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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.Collection: Opposites
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.Collection: Opposites
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?Collection: Opposites
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.Collection: Opposites
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.Collection: Opposites
There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.Collection: Opposites
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.Collection: Opposites
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.Collection: Opposites
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.Collection: Opposites
Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.Collection: Opposites
Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.Collection: Opposites
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'Collection: Opposites
My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.Collection: Opposites
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.Collection: Opposites
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.Collection: Opposites
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.Collection: Opposites
Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.Collection: Opposites
Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.Collection: Opposites
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.Collection: Opposites
Observe the masses and do the oppositeCollection: Opposites
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.Collection: Opposites
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.Collection: Opposites
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.Collection: Opposites
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.Collection: Opposites
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.Collection: Opposites
Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.Collection: Opposites
Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.Collection: Opposites
I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.Collection: Opposites
In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.Collection: Opposites
I get a message from Stephen Falk saying, "Hey, if I wrote a part for you in You're The Worst, would you do it?" I was like, "Yes!" And then, of course, later I found out it's going to be me playing myself sort of Larry Sanders-style where I'm the total opposite of what people would expect me to be. I was just like, "Okay, what the hell." But it's really funny to portray me as somebody who is pretending to be a stoner just to succeed.Collection: Opposites
Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.Collection: Opposites
Consuming is the opposite of producing.Collection: Opposites
Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.Collection: Opposites
There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.Collection: Opposites
Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permissionCollection: Opposites
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.Collection: Opposites
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.Collection: Opposites
Nothing exists without its opposite.Collection: Opposites
I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.Collection: Opposites
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.Collection: Opposites
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.Collection: Opposites
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.Collection: Opposites