Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i. e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.
I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.
Consuming is the opposite of producing.
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really. . . I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists. . . We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.
The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.
Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.