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I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.Collection: Opposites
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!Collection: Opposites
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.Collection: Opposites
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.Collection: Opposites
I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.Collection: Opposites
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Opposites
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.Collection: Opposites
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.Collection: Opposites
They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.Collection: Opposites
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.Collection: Opposites
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.Collection: Opposites
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.Collection: Opposites
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.Collection: Opposites
Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.Collection: Opposites
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.Collection: Opposites
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.Collection: Opposites
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.Collection: Opposites
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.Collection: Opposites
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.Collection: Opposites
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.Collection: Opposites
A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.Collection: Opposites
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Opposites
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.Collection: Opposites
It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.Collection: Opposites
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.Collection: Opposites
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.Collection: Opposites
I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the oppositeCollection: Opposites
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.Collection: Opposites
In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trainedCollection: Opposites
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.Collection: Opposites
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.Collection: Opposites
We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.Collection: Opposites
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.Collection: Opposites
Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Opposites
The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.Collection: Opposites
Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.Collection: Opposites
Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.Collection: Opposites
Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.Collection: Opposites
Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.Collection: Opposites
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.Collection: Opposites