Dario Robleto Quotes

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

Dario Robleto

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• My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Balance
  • Opposites

• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Bored
  • Worst
  • Destructive

• There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • World
  • Strong
  • Difference

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • History

• 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.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • City
  • Travel
  • Cities

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Habit
  • Opinions
  • Destructive

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• 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.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposites
  • Subject
  • Emerges

• There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Harmony
  • Opposites
  • Lyre

• Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Worry
  • Habit
  • Destructive

• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

  

  Plato
  • Things
  • Understood
  • Opposites

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Harmony
  • Opposites

• The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Opposites
  • Blend
  • Strong Man

• 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.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Mind
  • Opposites
  • Consists

• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Creative
  • Choice
  • Lives

• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Business
  • Singer
  • Imagined

• Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Awareness

• Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

  

  Karen Barad
  • World
  • Running
  • Appreciation

• It offended him and mocked his wounded soul: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Wounded

• Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Opposites
  • Destructive
  • Constructive