I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that… — Seth Copy Share Image
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson 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
As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which… — Roger Bannister 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
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 is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugo Black 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
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few… — George Will Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is… — Mark X Copy Share Image
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image