If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.
In most of his films, Upendra has a harsh and rough demeanor, and Sudeep also has a very massy commercial image. In 'Mukunda Murari,' though, their characters require them to be very different and near silent.
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way. I always tried to be that way - sometimes it works and sometimes you fall flat on your face.
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.
Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
