Paradox Quotes - Page 7

• The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

  Cornel West

  Destiny, Race, America

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.4, Beacon Press

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• Una paradoja conmovedora es que, a veces, el propio deseo de ser una buena madre o un buen padre lleva al progenitor a confundir el deber con el amor.

  William Watson Purkey

  Mother, Father, Mistake

  William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

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• La potenciación no sólo permite las posibilidades de una plenitud y exuberancia saludables, sino de una extravagancia, aberración, monstruosidad bastante ominosas... Este peligro está integrado en la propia naturaleza del crecimiento y de la vida. El crecimiento puede convertirse en sobrecrecimiento, la vida en "hipervida"... La paradoja de una enfermedad que puede presentarse como bienestar -como una maravillosa sensación de salud y bienestar, y sólo más tarde revelar sus potenciales malignos- es una de las quimeras, trucos e ironías de la naturaleza.

  Oliver Sacks

  Salud, Sentimientos, Crecimiento

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• You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teaching, Adventure, Emotional

  "Deepak Chopra: The Two Questions Every Business Leader Has to Ask". Interview with Eric Schurenberg, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2011.

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• It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

  Steven Pressfield

  Race, Air, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). "La guerra del arte: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles", p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

  Peggy Noonan

  Running, America, Politics

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• You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Hair, People

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

  Jeremy Northam

  Jobs, Heart, Fiction

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Ordinary, Normal

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Selfish, Stupid, Intelligent

  George Stephanopoulos (1999). “All Too Human: A Political Education”

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• I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

  Hedi Slimane

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Ideas

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• Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

  Sue Thoele

  Letting Go, Patterns, Periods

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.122, Conari Press

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• Decir que uno espera toda la vida a que le llegue su alma gemela es una paradoja. Al final, la gente se harta de esperar, se arriesga con alguien y, por arte del compromiso, se convierten en almas gemelas, algo que se tarda toda una vida en perfeccionar.

  Criss Jami

  Amor, Inspiración, Matrimonio

  Criss Jami (2015). "Killosophy", p.97, Criss Jami.

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• Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

  Steven Kotler

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Shadow, Groups

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• Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

  Amy Waldman

  Reading, Writing, Character

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• This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".

  Will Self

  Actitud, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Friendship, Horse, Sacrifice

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). "Estrictamente personal"

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• Tengo muchas paradojas en mi vida. Supongo que soy una persona realmente confusa, pero ahora hay algunas partes centradas en mi vida, y poco a poco estoy intentando recomponer todas las piezas.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Confused, Real, Trying

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• Sólo cuando levantes una carga, Dios levantará tu carga. ¡Divina paradoja ésta! El hombre que se tambalea y cae porque su carga es demasiado grande puede aligerar esa carga tomando el peso de la carga de otro. Tú recibes dando, pero tu parte de dar debe ser dada primero.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fall, Men, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). "Las enseñanzas de Spencer W. Kimball, duodécimo presidente de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días".

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• Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.

  John Peers

  Horse, Peers, Ass

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• There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

  Richard Layard, Barón Layard

  Heart, People, Income

  "Happiness: Lessons from a New Science". Book by Richard Layard, April 7, 2011.

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