#opposite

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#improving #increase #just #key #looking

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#actually #else #i #i think #opposite

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cold #done #drawn #effect #experiment

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#opposite #talking #waiting

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ↗

— Jonathan Larson

#opposite #peace #war

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#electronic #electronic music #exactly #human #music

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#contingent #fact #impossible #kinds #necessary

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#opposite #say #simple #something #stupid

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

#been #case #defends #his #likes

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#bear #bids #directly #fit #honor