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
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can… — Andrew Ferguson Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
“Openness to paradox allows both the understanding and the acceptance of our human condition as “both/and" (both a saint and a sinner)… — Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene.… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of… — Jean Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Beware those who stand nearest, for they see both your strengths and your scars. The hand that offers comfort can just as… — Pierre Lagrenat Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
One of lifes sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to what were doing right… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, like complete shit. It… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
“No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
