#opposite

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#conformity #cowardice #opposite

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#failure #most #opposites #people #process

Experience is the opposite of education. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experience #opposites #education

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#contributes #convulsion #death #good #implication

Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia. ↗

— Brian Cox

#australia #australians #beautiful #believe #country

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#actually #always #being #christianity #earth

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things. ↗

— Tim Gane

#almost #any #band #because #does

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#always #course #custom #opposite #take

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#art lies #beauty #children #exactly #fact

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current