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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
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.
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.
I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
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.
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.
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.
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
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.
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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.
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.
There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.