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- What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard…
- Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and…
- I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
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- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire
- The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Andrew Carnegie
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl von Clausewitz
- We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates… — Margaret Mead
- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our… — Marcel Proust
- Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant
- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan
- I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds