Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that… — Andy Hargreaves 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
“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The Plant Paradox Program is actually a microbiome- and mitochondria-centric program that recommends a diverse array of the right plant foods at… — Steven R. Gundry Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the… — George Clayton Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won’t make a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image