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«Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.»
Author: E. F. Schumacker
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
bigger, complex, complexes, direction, genius, intelligent, move in, opposite, touch, violent
«All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
according, forgets, looking at, One of Us, opposite, other ways, painter, painting, paintings, photo, photographed, photographing, photographs, record, remembers, remind, The photo, The Records, ways
«In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.»
«We're actors. We're the opposite of people.»
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| Keywords:
call out, clear, cry, direction, directions, forward, go in, monk, opposite, precisely, revolutionaries, revolutionary, The Monk, The Monks, The Word
«It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.»
«Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.»
«He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
burden, calm, disposition, equally, hardly, of age, opposite, pressure, pressured, Too Much Pressure
«It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
attain, imperfection, opposite, passing
«A fanatic is always the fellow on the opposite side.»
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