Dario Robleto Quotes
Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
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Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
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Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.
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Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
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The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
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Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
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The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
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Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.
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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
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Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.
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Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
