Quotes by Paradox It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety. Kathryn Hahn paradox anxiety survival The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox. Kedar Joshi paradox contradiction world The existence of God is the ultimate paradox. Kedar Joshi existence-of-god paradox existence Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking. Lesley Hazleton paradox danger thinking Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender. Lewis B. Smedes paradox surrender self It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed. Lewis Schiff paradox behavior circumstances The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power. Lynda Obst paradox relax way The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. Madeleine L'Engle unending paradox pain Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. Mandell Creighton paradox attention ideas By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle. Mark Nepo paradox infinite bottles When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. Mason Cooley paradox To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme. Mason Cooley paradox advice trying Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. Mason Cooley paradox contradiction Paradox likes contradictions with exits. Mason Cooley paradox exit likes There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world. Michael Gerson paradox president world All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday paradox effort writing I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa paradox responsibility hurt There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair. Neil Tennant paradox satisfaction people In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed. Neil Strauss paradox girlfriend facts That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster. Nicolas Godin paradox long thinking «12345678»