We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this… — Faye J Crosby 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
“She abandoned me. This was devastating. And the paradox was that the moment she abandoned me, she began to be with me… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes… — Karen Connelly Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton 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
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
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
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
The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause… — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Time is always moving forward, and thus impervious to paradox, but by remaining here, by allowing the duplication, you are altering the… — M.R. Forbes Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
LIFE Is A Paradox. Whatever You want, You Don't Get. Whatever You Get, You Don't Enjoy. Whatever You Enjoy, Is Not Permanent.… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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