I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way.
Julia Cameron
We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going to create 344,000 jobs each month starting in August, and things are going in the opposite direction.
Lawrence Mishel
The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.
Jonathon Larson
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
There's a lot of research that shows the exact opposite of what they are saying.
Jennifer Topiel
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
George Carlin
If they get close to one another, material can transfer and the angular momentum from one system can be just the opposite from the other.
Jan Hollis
Normally we sell beer at 4.25, now we are selling them for three dollars, we are doing the opposite of price gouging.
Tammy Hoffman
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Some teams don't practice hard and do great in games. We're the opposite.
Dee Dee Horton
I got in a rut and couldn't get out of it. I tried, but it's a case of like being in the opposite of when you are in the zone and can't miss anything to not being able to catch anything.
Todd Watkins
Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
Richard Foreman
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Nelson Eddy
I've had a lot of interviews with people. The first question was, `How happy are you now that she's gone?' And I'm like, it's the total opposite. I was really bummed. So now we've got to move on.
Holly Robinson peete
One-year-ago I characterized it as a feeding frenzy, when there are too many buyers, not enough sellers. Today it's just the opposite the accumulation of inventory is growing.
Phil Mccabe
In the midst of the negative atmosphere of the industry, this crowd was 180 degrees the opposite. The attitudes are up. ... They're not losing their love affair with the automobile.
Richard Genthe
We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard
When I explained to him what happened, he was furious and confused. Bailey and Frank never, and I mean never, ride in the opposite direction. They always ride in the same direction.
Shannon Bailey
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Arthur C. Clarke
One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."
Demetri Martin
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Pierre Charron
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
Instead of trapping heat in, and thereby warming the surface, this kind of has the opposite effect.
Mark Gurwell
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
Douglas Wilson
He had the knack for being able to put the bat on the ball. They would bring in side-arming left-handers and he'd go up there and stroke the ball the opposite way. If they would hang a breaking ball, he'd hit it out of the ballpark. He was one of the better hitters I've seen.
Bob Watson
Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.
Mickey Edwards
Our kids didn't come out as aggressive as they needed to be. The second half, we were just the opposite. We got some turnovers, we attacked the basket and we defended better.
Mike Ellis
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
Jonathan Larson
It's the total opposite side of the coin.
Matt Bragaw
Absolutely not. Actually it's quite the opposite. It's taking time away from the campaign.
James Harrington
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
Anselm Feuerbach
Is the opposite of a reformer.
Robert Morgenthau
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it.
Richard Harding Davis
We have social security numbers and we count each other. Coyotes are just the opposite. They don't have social security numbers and they don't line up nicely.
Tedor Whitman
The conditions are the exact opposite of those in Zagreb, where the Croats prepared for this event.
Thomas Muster
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Harold S. Geneen
The 2006 General Assembly began with an overwhelming bipartisan consensus, and public expectation, that Connecticut must dramatically improve our prospects for job creation and economic growth. This bill does just the opposite.
Bonnie Stewart
He's kind of quiet. When you first get to meet him, you've got to approach him, he won't approach you. I'm actually almost the opposite.
Jonathan Casillas
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
Richard Dawkins
If you only have one or two producers on a film, you're statistically likely to have a stinker. That's the opposite of the idea that too many cooks spoil the brew.
Matthew Prince
If physicians suggest, either directly or even implicitly, that faith and religious activity are associated with health, ... then they indirectly suggest the opposite -- which is that the disease and illness are associated with insufficient faith and insufficient devotion.
Richard Sloan
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
Thomas C. Haliburton
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
This group has hit the ball real well. They go opposite field well and they're not afraid to swing the bat.
Vance Arnold
He believes the opposite.
Lou D'ermilio
In many ways Booker is the opposite of James. He's a new, professional breed of urban manager.
Rick Thigpen
That was an incredible experience, ... I hear people say that the field was weak (because it was played opposite of the British Open), but winning is winning. Now that I've done it, I know I can do it again.
Jason Bohn
They only select items they really know are going to be useful or attractive to customers. That is what really makes them different. They do the opposite of what everybody else does.
Claes Fornell
She has said that she is for the new politics and the new technology, and I am for the old. In fact, exactly the opposite is true.
Slade Gorton
There are federal judges who have ruled elsewhere in the U.S. the exact opposite of the way this federal judge has, ... this case only affects the area of California in which he [the judge] sits.
Andrew Napolitano
Morgan hit a good pitch, I thought. He hit it a long way to the opposite field. [On Ausmus' homer], that [pitch] I wanted more away from him, but it wasn't.
Jason Isringhausen
It would be bizarre if we were to adopt a position of silence when countries like Germany were moving in the opposite direction.
David Cameron
Research shows mandatory minimums don't serve as a deterrent and actually have the opposite effect.
Irwin Cotler
Ryan is the exact opposite of that. He's one of the more graceful divers I have seen.
Gary Guadagnino
There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
Ric Ocasek
A lot of people are good people leaders, but dogs think differently than humans do. When we treat them the same as humans, many times we get the opposite effect of what we're intending.
Ruth Marquardt
France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine.
P. J. O'Rourke
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
Jean Genet
You want the harness to face the opposite direction we face.
John Cummings
I wish I could say coaching was that easy, but we all know better, ... I was happy for our kids, because they have been on the opposite end of these kind of games in the past.
Randy Clark
This is going to have the opposite effect of what the U.S. government wants, since the demand for migrant smugglers is going to go up.
Victor Clark
Some people say we are diminishing the value of their property by increasing restrictiveness and I would say the opposite. That's been the experience of the county up to now.
Paul Rudnick
SAP really does the opposite of what we do.
Ross Mayfield
You're taught to avoid everything on the road, and this is just the opposite.
Mike Parsons
We have to stop their opposite Macias, because he's their go-to guy every time. We have to focus on him, and then focus on our side of the court, with us working hard and everything.
Matt Proper
There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to link any of the three issues to the tri-nation pipeline, which is in principle opposite to our position.
Mahmudur Rahman
Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.
Victor Murphy
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
Mark Rothko
I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.
David Beckham
We believe . . . humor may have been a trait that evolved to allow individuals of the opposite sex to evaluate their mate quality.
Sigal Balshine
The type of mistakes that we made, ... if we could have turned those around, the game would have been the opposite way.
Derrick Pope
I ended my mail-order business, and I made that decision with regret, because my whole goal is to make my music available to people, not the opposite. But I couldn't handle it. I couldn't get the freedom I needed as an independent artist.
Jane Siberry
Is it human nature that we're going to be complacent? I don't see that in any way, ... As a staff, we've worked harder and longer and recruited more than ever before. Probably the opposite of what you think has happened -- we're more driven then ever.
Pete Carroll
It's helped young adolescents, especially males, overcome feelings of awkwardness around members of the opposite sex.
William Dudley
Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite, ... through hell had such action been necessary. But I honestly doubt very much if I would have followed Pearse not without some thought anyway.
Michael Collins
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Oliver Herford
We want to make sure that the [affordable housing] ordinance doesn't have the opposite effect. That is not in anybody's best interest.
Scott Worley
From an operational perspective we need to see signs the company is coping well in this difficult environment, and if that is the case that could set the market up for a good day [on Tuesday]. If not, then the opposite could happen.
David Thwaites
I'm a little concerned with some things that could happen (due to the inexperience). But just the opposite could happen. These kids could play with energy and enthusiasm all season long.
Danny Sheaffer
It is almost the opposite of what people think. Organizations tend not to be on the cutting edge.
Bill Mechanic
They do little annoying things just to get the attention of the opposite sex, which escalates into something else, ... But having them separated, you do away with that.
Karen Grant
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
One realises after a while, that indiscriminate opposition with the opposite sex has its drawbacks.[Richards].
The Rolling Stones
There's no excuse for missing that kick. I want the offense to have confidence that if they can't make it all the way in, we're going to get three points out of it. And that's exactly the opposite of what I did for us.
Mike Nugent
[Likewise, she is closely observed in her new film,] Happy Endings, ... The Opposite of Sex.
Tom Arnold
If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done just the opposite.
Barbara Becnel
I'm exactly the opposite. I hate the attention but thrive on the financial side.
Casey Shroff
We saw little evidence yesterday that the Godzilla-size footprints of funds bailing out of gold was present. We did see evidence overnight that millions of tiny (individual-investor) footprints make for an equal-size impact on gold -- in the opposite direction.
Jon Nadler
The absolute numbers are in the opposite direction.
Joseph Hoffman
Argentina will honor its foreign and domestic debt, no matter whether some candidate asks for the opposite for his own spurious political interests.
Carlos Menem
Everything in life has an opposite. While one brings devastation; the other brings peace.
Freddy Mella
Coach always tells us to hit it where it's pitched. The first one was down the middle and I hit it to center field. The next one was high so I took it opposite field.
Jeremy Williams
We had some opportunities on Monday, but the ball just wasn't rolling our way. Today, it was totally the opposite.
Manny Blanco
The irony is that this inward orientation doesn't ensure survival. In fact, it guarantees the opposite -- irrelevance, obsolescence and death.
Craig Cochran
It's kind of ironic. This bill encourages the use of eminent domain, and in most states just the opposite is happening.
Terry Mackin
If it were as negative as it appears on the surface, Microsoft stock would be dropping like a rock, and it's doing just the opposite. It doesn't appear to be something that's material in nature.
Gerard Cassidy
People ask me, 'Is it better to marry your money type or the opposite? It's probably better to do the opposite. There's some conflict, but there's also some brakes and an accelerator, as opposed to having all brakes or all accelerator if you're the same.
Jordan Goodman
I don't think what happened four years ago is going to lessen this event at these Olympics, I think it will have exactly the opposite effect.
John Baldwin
We live in a culture where more and more people are on opposite sides of these basic issues.
Francis Manion
In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.
Bruce Anderson
I thought they won, and I started to cry again. It feels great to win ... It's a completely opposite feeling this time.
Bobby Martin
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Snowball is just the opposite. He always wants to be inside. He does love to ride in the car, though.
Jackie Cavaco
But 25 years later, the exact opposite has happened.
Sean Mcguire
It was like exactly opposite. We started slow last game.
Ryan Chisolm
There will be some nights when we don't have the talent to match up with the team opposite us, but I fully expect our kids to compete every day.
Lance Traywick
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
Henry Miller
The opposite opinion is that we're probably too harsh, and that I can accept. Often defendants say I am too harsh, often defense attorneys argue about the charges I bring, that I'm sued, too. That I expect and am ready to confront.
William Lennon
That's big for me, any time I go (opposite field) it's big, especially on a changeup, ... It's a good feeling. ... My goal this year was to stay as even as possible. .
Bobby Crosby
By assembling these pieces of the puzzle, the picture that emerged was the complete opposite of what most astronomers have believed.
Charles Lada
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Dr. Rollo May
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
Charles Spencer
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Frank Capra
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
Cary Grant
They're so opposite on their moral grounds.
Mary Batchelor
Both sides threatened to mobilize voters against me. The threats really had the opposite effect.
Tom Umberg
Angela Merkel believes fiercely that Germany needs a freer, more individualistic society, and more market-oriented economy, precisely because she grew up in the very opposite -- in the communist east.
Gerd Langguth
I try to get people to marry someone of the opposite sex who is their best friend.
Ron Dubois
He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.
Mike Gruber
This is really the opposite of what we saw with Nokia.
Per Lindberg
I'm sure the budget writers in the House are not inclined to give extra benefits to a freshman of the opposite party. However, I really don't consider CSO money extra benefits.
Sen. Steve Newman
There is nothing in that mix that will devalue the value of network television. In fact, I think it will be exactly the opposite.
David Poltrack
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean De La Bruyere
Any time you hit the ball to the opposite field, you're swinging the bat real good. [Lee] has maintained that.
Billy J. Williams
We're finding just the opposite. We've found more retinal hemorrhages in non-abuse cases than in abuse cases, but most doctors don't look in the eyes of children unless they suspect child abuse.
Patrick Lantz
If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.
Thierry Fremaux
Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with absolutely opposite opinions.
Leonid Kuchma
We think this system may have gotten material from two clouds instead of one, and the two were rotating in opposite directions.
Anthony Remijan
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
Rebecca Johnson
We went up against a deeper team than us, ... but usually it's the opposite.
Dennis Driscoll
The Commerce Committee is headed in the opposite direction of where the American public wants to go.
Timothy Wu
I guess they thought I was just the opposite of her.
Betsy Palmer
In many ways, CRM is the opposite of peer-to-peer computing, ... CRM is a disaster.
David Steele
If the place looks like a million bucks, it's well-run, and the trucks are well-maintained, chances are they are going to treat your goods the same way. If it's a mess, the opposite is probably true.
George Bennett
He put a couple of things into perspective, allowing me to free my swing up a little more, ... I think it's always good to hear from the opposite end of the spectrum.
Jimmy Rollins
It's difficult anywhere to find that kind of split. Most places are opposite.
Jay Stewart
I think exactly the opposite.
Frank Lowy
C.J. will help us in a big way. We haven't had a true opposite hitter at USC since All-American Brook Billings (1999-2002). His size and being a lefty are assets, as is his championship experience.
Turhan Douglas
Between being really competitive and being cutesy, it seems like it's at opposite ends of the spectrum. But we don't dare complain because they treat us so good.
Renee Sonnenberg
I call it the New Material Research Laboratory, which means just the opposite - that it is about old techniques.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
It's interesting that by taking these people, they're doing the opposite of what they set out to do. They're bringing attention to how noble and necessary their work is in Iraq.
Paul Slattery
One of our competitors has created this myth that DC power is more efficient. In fact, the opposite is true.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
Douglas Feith
We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
Linda Blair
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.
G. Wilhelm Leibniz
What I find almost offensive is all these politicians saying we know mandatory minimums deter, and we don't know that. We know the exact opposite, that it's not what you're going to be sentenced to that makes the difference, it's the chance of getting caught.
Sanjeev Anand
A rainbow is a full circle of light centered around the point opposite the sun, but grounded we can only see the arc above the horizon. You can only see a rainbow with your back to the sun.
Doug Kelly
I like the studio because it's delicate; you're working for sound. I like the garage because chopping up lumps of steel is the exact opposite of delicate. The garage is a more dangerous place though. I've never almost been crushed by a guitar, but I can't say the same about one of my Corvettes.
Jeff Beck
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
Dido Armstrong
Trying to get the attention of the audience in the opposite way it's done in Hollywood today, which is to bombard the audience.
Alejandro Amenabar
Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.
D.j. Owens
It is a cruel irony that in our effort to remove the appearance of bias and politics from our criminal justice system we have in fact achieved the exact opposite.
John Nields
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
They'll tell you just the opposite.
Arnie Ball
We are not training terrorists, ... Actually, it's the opposite of that. We are assisting in training counter-terrorists, anti-terrorists, those kinds of things.
Frank Fish
It's the opposite of the U.S..
Nop Ratanasiripong's
[Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in] The Pelican Brief, ... the best actor of this generation, hands down.
Denzel Washington
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton
Aviation is a rogue sector and its environmental impact is out of control. Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humanity and yet aviation policy is doing the opposite of what is needed.
Tony Juniper
If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
Anton Chekhov
The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
Mal Pancoast
Content providers want to know their content will be secure. HD-DVD is sending the opposite message.
Taro Takamine
[Bikers] leave little to no room to drive without differing drivers coming in the opposite direction.
Anthony Brown
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
Craig Newmark
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
Henry Moore
She's the opposite of a coach potato. She spends her days hunting on a farm. She's already lived that life.
Paul Lepiane
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
Elbert Hubbard
They were so big, that we were taking off on different ends - long peaks - and you're just passing each other in opposite directions.
George Downing
What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
Dinah Sheridan
Congress did not say you could ignore collective bargaining rights. It said just the opposite.
Harry Edwards
The PLA (People's Liberation Army) continues to deploy missile forces in areas opposite Taiwan. Those represent a growing force for intimidation.
William Mccahill
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.
E. F. Schumacher
We had a little shock after the first period. The first period was all us and the second was the opposite. You have to hang in there. In this game you are going to have ups and downs.
Scott Mellanby
We're going to be able to have debates in here, but by the end, when people walk out that door, two people of opposite political ideologies can be in agreement that our freedoms are vitally important to us.
Joe Madeira
If you look at the national trend, we are the opposite of the national trend. The national trend had a slowdown in organizing -- here we have not. It's because we've had active new campaigns.
Danny Thompson
He'll even let himself be characterized as perverse. He's not. He's the opposite of perverse. He's coaxing our perversions, our suppressed perversions, into the open and helping us to deal with them in this wonderful way.
William Hurt
Rancid are real punk-rock dudes, you know, but they came out with the opposite attitude.
Chuck Comeau
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
Elizabeth Fishel
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