“Parks herself seemed aware of this paradox, calling her autobiography Quiet Strength—a title that challenges us to question our assumptions. Why shouldn’t… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“God an all-powerful being who knows the beginning and ending of all things created an angel knowing fully well that the angel… — N.K. Aning Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time,… — MO Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“There’s a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn’t… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons—Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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