My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend One on another, as Logos depends On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. This is the origin of change.
Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
I watched what I ate for a bit and did a bit of exercise. I wanted to look alright because I knew I had to take my clothes off and I knew I was starring alongside some extremely attractive women! I think it was Humphrey Bogart who said that the only reason people found him attractive was because of the attractive women he played opposite. So, as audience member you go: "Well, if she would find him attractive, then surely I must too!" Playing opposite beautiful actress of the calibre of Rose Byrne and Anna Faris is amazing - it does a lot of the work for you.