Opposites Quotes — Page 31

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Writer, Monk

“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?”

Want Opposites Waste

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Sharon Stone

Actress

“When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.”

Thinking Dream Opposites

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.”

Opposites Economy

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Frank Herbert

Science Fiction Writer

“Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.”

Opposites Longing

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Fran Lebowitz

Author, Essayist

“Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.”

Women Opposites Sexy

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.”

Firsts Opposites Selfish

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Issues Opposites Opponents

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Kanye West

Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer

“People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.”

People Opposites Frustration

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Napoleon Hill

Author, Motivational Speaker

“The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).”

Two Spiritual Opposites

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Fran Lebowitz

Author, Essayist

“When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.”

Want Opposites Romance

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Fran Lebowitz

Author, Essayist

“I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.”

Writing Long Opposites

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.”

Littles Happiness Opposites

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