Ben Sherwood Quotes
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.Ben Sherwood
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers -
He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus -
Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
Brian Tracy -
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
Vittorio Gassman
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
William Feather -
I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.
Paul Craig Roberts -
Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
Seth Godin -
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.
Richard Simmons
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Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
Betsy Lerner -
It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.
Ed Droste -
Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Harmon Killebrew -
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Ramakrishna -
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Ben Sherwood