Jostein Gaarder Quotes

The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

Jostein Gaarder

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Training
  • Opponents
  • Cater

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Like
  • Meeting
  • Reaction

• He has fantastic long-ball, and ball reactions, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that quick. And then the other thing, he's got a great burst, and when you get him going downfield and put in the ball reaction, he can be running, I think, and doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he has such confidence there in where the ball is. Even though he's a shorter receiver, I think he's very much a downfield threat because of that, and then, of course, he's got great speed.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Clock
  • Opponents

• The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Future
  • Worse
  • Opponents

• A further jump in energy prices or a more pronounced reaction to those increases in prices that have already occurred could test the strength of the expansion.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Jump
  • Reaction

• If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Work
  • Control
  • Reaction

• The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in.

  

  Bob Bartlett
  • Positive
  • Sense
  • Reaction

• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • May
  • Fundamentals
  • Opponents

• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  

  George Foreman
  • Littles
  • Opponents
  • Companion

• It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Imagine
  • Extras
  • Energetic

• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Prison
  • Opponents

• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Action
  • Reaction
  • Opposed

• The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reaction
  • Dictator
  • Respectively

• My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.

  

  Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
  • Road
  • Opportunities
  • Reaction

• Offending people is better than no reaction at all.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • People
  • Better
  • Reaction

• That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Creative
  • Stills
  • Late

• "Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Country
  • Tree
  • Cutting

• The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Strength
  • Arms

• The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Reaction
  • Opponents
  • Energetic