The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate -… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of paradox that "equations" based on it do not work out. Where paradox contaminates human relations, disease… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a… — Nate Kaeding Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“However, he still retained something of the fluid notions of male and female at the heart of the Ramakrishna's spiritual idealism: 'The… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“He quickened his stride: 'The truth is in the paradox, Miss Drake. Anything not done in submission to God, anything not done… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness.… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox . If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
