71 Paradox Quotes for You to Enjoy

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. Niels Bohr

Hope Wonderful Progress Met Paradox Some How Making Now

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. Nigel Kneale

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things. Jeff Bridges

God Myself Consider Back Say Out Paradox Pretty Guy Both Lazy Check Stuff Suppose Look Lot Done Being Things

Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism. Alissa Quart

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. Amanda Hearst

Architecture Building Organic Characteristic William Paradox Collection Proof Shapes Longer Contemporary Permanent Lines Rome Boast Works Museum

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. Arthur Henderson

War Peace People Oppression Starving Danger Pledged Plenty Paradox Gigantic Would See Civilization He Although Nations Midst Preparing Multitudes

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me. Bennett Miller

Politics Me Too Much Feeling Control Too Paradox Takes Feels Govern Get Trying Elected Much Things Necessarily

Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately. Bernard Arnault

Rare Difficult Paradox Mastering Very Brands Fortunately Star

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. Bryce Dallas Howard

Me Writing First Abandoned Characters Paradox Only Know First Thing How Were The First Thing The Only Thing While Act Thing

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice. Chrystia Freeland

Democracy World Political Become Sector Paradox Consumer Private Intellectual Private Sector Mode Public Much Choice Even Default

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved. Cory Barlog

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them. Dianne Feinstein

Hope Building Spend Paradox Weapons Never Maintaining Dollars Them Us Use Billions Billions Of Dollars Nuclear Present Nuclear Weapons

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. Felix Dennis

World Rich Sympathy Paradox Scant Darker True Generous Becomes Nonetheless Narrower Celebrity Often Place Newly Less Sudden

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. Henry Petroski

Future Failure Past Down Ways Paradox More Potential Take Failures New Inviting Likely Occur Line Anticipate Account Model New Ways Which Produce Successes Successful Designs

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted. James Surowiecki

Amazing Listening Sense Research Market Jobs Paradox No Interest Consumers Had He Steve Nonetheless Wanted Interest Actually Career

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. Jane Smiley

Death Before Too Other Other Countries Hundreds Completed States Frank Frank Lloyd Wright Paradox Wright Countries New Like Look Most Around Buildings His York Just New York Famous Lived United United States Museum

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time Good Great Paradox Irony Same Same Time Form

The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general. Lev Grossman

Country State Books Heyday Paradox Seduction General Fact Part House Permanent Always Behind Just Decline English

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. Malcolm Gladwell

Work Sports Will Fall Too Paradox Athlete Never Pushes He Himself Because His Endurance Wants Far Hard

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works. Margrethe Vestager

Democracy You Law Sometimes Free Intervene Market Paradox Laws Free Market Know Make Sure Jungle Want Works

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