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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Success
Best
Respect
Advice
Respectfully
Exact
Exact Opposite
Having
Doing
Opposite
Very
Owe
Going
Going Away
Listened
Then
Away
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.
Rush Limbaugh
Happy
People
Some People
Stupid
Meal
Every
Deficiency
Characteristic
Exact
Exact Opposite
Some
No Idea
About
Highest
Idea
Know
Self-Image
How
Opposite
Fries
Often
Short
Order
Who
Incompetent
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac
Science
People
Before
Everyone
Way
Tell
Exact
Exact Opposite
Tries
Something
Poetry
No-One
Knew
Understood
Opposite
Such A Way
Ever
When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion
Joy
Getting Older
Be True
Older
Colder
Exact
Exact Opposite
Find
Finding
More
Mystery
True
Looked
Becoming
Opposite
Getting
Human
Interactions
Process
Interested
Warmer
Younger
Less
Found
Things
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Nelson Eddy
Truth
Society
Tell
Tells
Exact
Exact Opposite
Opposite
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Will
Believe
Out
Exact
Exact Opposite
Find
Opposite
Wanted
Which
Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
Caroll Spinney
Positive
Great
Character
You
Bird
Mind
Negative
Long
Big
Sweet
Nice
Think
Though
Kids
Bizarre
Exact
Exact Opposite
He
Feet
Like
Also
Identify
Looks
Him
How
Opposite
Behave
Just
Should
View
Inches
Even
Oscar
Sympathetic
I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control over the universe. They're always seen as these uncontrollable events. But when you look at the science, they're actually the exact opposite.
Carrie Nugent
God
You
Science
Events
Perception
Seen
Control
Think
Universe
Kind
Exact
No Control
Exact Opposite
About
Fact
Uncontrollable
Over
Look
Always
Metaphors
Opposite
Public
Acts
Actually
It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
Jake Tapper
Truth
Government
Job
Value
Face
Say
Says
Exact
Exact Opposite
Lies
Face Value
Take
Never
Because
Opposite
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
War
You
Trouble
Strategy
Way
Out
Exact
Exact Opposite
See
Like
Knowing
Without
How
Opposite
Cameras
Exit
Exit Strategy
Get
Rolling
Wanna
Where
Gonna
Should
Acting
Need
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.
John Paulson
Mistake
Strategy
High
Exact
Exact Opposite
Investors
Make
Opposite
Selling
While
Low
Many
Right
Buying
The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.
Jos Buttler
You
Game
Try
Pressure
Cricket
Lynn
Exact
Exact Opposite
Guys
Putting
Glenn
Execute
Likes
Always
Opposite
Expect
Maxwell
Moves
Them
Then
Plans
Chris
Fast
One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers tend to be introverted, skeptical, and very analytical. CEOs, like astronauts, are the exact opposite, typically being extroverts, optimists, and, well, leaders.
Mohnish Pabrai
Personality
Think
Analytical
Distinct
Astronauts
Exact
Exact Opposite
Introverted
Tend
Investment
Leaders
Like
Well
Opposite
Very
Optimists
Roles
Traits
Managers
Being
Different
Skeptical
Might
CEOs
Radically
Two
I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Good
Law
Sex
Exact
Exact Opposite
Opposite
Lousy
Decided
Even
I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
Prodigy
Joke
Prison
Sick
Everything
Exact
Exact Opposite
Eat
Exercise
Opposite
Afford
Get
Cell
Jail
Poorly
Designed
What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Happy
People
Joy
World
Better
Better World
Fighting
Think
Pleasure
Exact
Exact Opposite
Finding
Push
Blind
Make
Because
Does
Opposite
Been
Afraid
Hard
Keep
Now
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
Skeet Ulrich
Day
Problem
Think
Interviews
One Day
One Thing
Exact
Exact Opposite
Opposite
Next
Thing
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.
Tom Wolfe
School
Everyone
Top
Way
Airport
Exact
Exact Opposite
General
General Public
Term
Exclusive
Likewise
Does
Opposite
Private
Public
Means
Aviation
England
English
Public School
I've read in various media stories that my dad and I had demanded guarantees of playing time or that we didn't want to play at Florida. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the exact opposite. We went in there and specifically said we weren't looking for guarantees.
Will Grier
Truth
Time
Looking
Nothing
Further
Exact
Exact Opposite
Various
Could
Had
Demanded
Read
Said
Opposite
Were
Want
Stories
Dad
Media
Play
Specifically
Florida
Playing
Guarantees
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
Will Self
Think
Worlds
Our
Kind
Exact
Exact Opposite
Critics
Advance
Stuff
Contemporary
Operate
Odd
Opposite
Greatness
American
Often
Fiction
Whereas
Literary
Certain
Cool
Novelists
British
Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.
Dana White
Good
You
Man
Thug
Videos
Perception
Fighting
YouTube
Think
Meet
Slice
Bad
Exact
Exact Opposite
Bad Guy
Guy
He
True
Him
Opposite
Then
Really
Start
Watch
Good Guy
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby
You
Will
Consistently
Though
Kids
Telling
Exact
Exact Opposite
Opposite
Just
Just As Much
Loving
Them
Much
Your
Even
Keep
I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.
Kyle Busch
Success
Car
Has-Been
Exact
Exact Opposite
Johnson
Know
Greater
Opposite
Been
Cup
Than
Why
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