A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. — Elizabeth Fishel
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao Tzu
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. — Richard Wilbur
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts — Abraham Lincoln
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. — Heraclitus
When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary. — Burt Lancaster
Equality always concerns two parties: the one that’s paying and the one that’s receiving. — Ursula von der Leyen
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. — Bob Ross
Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery — Iceberg Slim
Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be — Gerald Barzan
Short Counterpart Quotes
How a piece of RNA could pair up with its phage DNA counterpart and cause that DNA to be destroyed. — Jennifer Doudna
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. — Paul Watzlawick
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart. — Bobby Bonilla
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. — Louis O. Kelso
None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics. — Margrethe II of Denmark
I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see. — Phil Elvrum
Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. — Mary Butts
It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals. — Margaret Starbird
Same Character Quotes
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. — Pablo Neruda
I like Piccolo about the same as I like Goku. — Akira Toriyama
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated. — Samuel Smiles
I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love "Pirates of the Caribbean", but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again. — Alex Pettyfer
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others! — Sinclair B. Ferguson
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. — Georges Rouault
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
Plot and character are virtually the same thing. — Daniel Keys Moran
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. — Nora Roberts
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. — Shelby Foote
Different But The Same Quotes
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components — Valentino Rossi
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do — Elvis Presley
We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views — Drake
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing — Michel Foucault
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently. — Marlee Matlin
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. — Ernest Hemingway
What Do Single Quotes
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time. — Bobby Knight
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — Quincy Jones
God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God - to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference — Zig Ziglar
"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb." — Jennifer Lawrence
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. — Sam Elliott
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. — Jimmy Wales
I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me. — America Ferrera
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? — Warren Hutcherson
We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. — Stanislaw Lem
Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. — Joe Penna
Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets. — Neal Cassady
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart. — Sister Nivedita
Ask calibrated questions that start with the words 'How' or 'What'. By implicitly asking the other party for help, these questions will give your counterpart an illusion of control and will inspire them to speak at length, revealing important information. — Chris Voss
By repeating back what people say, you trigger this mirroring instinct and your counterpart will inevitably elaborate on what was just said and sustain the process of connecting. — Chris Voss
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. — Tarja Halonen
Identify your counterpart’s negotiating style. Once you know whether they are Accommodator, Assertive, or Analyst, you’ll know the correct way to approach them. — Chris Voss
When it comes to salary negotiation, don't forget that salary is only one term of employment. What else is on the table - vacation time, benefits, bonuses, flex days? Before determining that these terms are 'must-haves' or 'giveaways' to get a bigger salary, find out what the counterpart has to offer. — Chris Voss
We all want to talk about the happy stuff, but remember, the faster you interrupt action in your counterpart’s amygdala, the part of the brain that generates fear, the faster you can generate feelings of safety, well-being, and trust. — Chris Voss
When you are verbally assaulted, do not counterattack. Instead, disarm your counterpart by asking a calibrated question. — Chris Voss
Remember: 65, 85, 95, 100 percent. Decreasing raises and ending on non-round numbers will get your counterpart to believe that he’s squeezing you for all you’re worth when you’re really getting to the number you want. — Chris Voss
The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany. — Chris Voss
You can bend your counterpart’s reality by anchoring his starting point. Before you make an offer, emotionally anchor them by saying how bad it will be. When you get to numbers, set an extreme anchor to make your 'real' offer seem reasonable, or use a range to seem less aggressive. — Chris Voss
People will take more risks to avoid a loss than to realize a gain. Make sure your counterpart sees that there is something to lose by inaction. — Chris Voss
Even changing a single word when you present options—like using 'not lose' instead of 'keep'—can unconsciously influence the conscious choices your counterpart makes. — Chris Voss
The reasons why a counterpart will not make an agreement with you are often more powerful than why they will make a deal, so focus first on clearing the barriers to agreement. — Chris Voss
The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains. — Jean Shinoda Bolen
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life. — Ernest K. Gann
When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language — Leonard Sweet
I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation. — Kofi Annan
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. — Camille Pissarro
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits. — Bruce R. McConkie
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. — Edward Abbey
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun. — Edwin Way Teale
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture. — Jessica Mitford
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time. — Sean William Scott
For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine. — Sayings
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. — Mark Foley
Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place. — Tony Blair
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. — Hassan Rouhani
Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors. — Johannes Itten
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. — Stephen F. Lynch
In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing. — Haifaa al-Mansour
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success. — Troy Polamalu
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. — Phillip Adams
In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart. — Li Bai
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. — Viola Davis
Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on. — Napoleon Hill
It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset. — Mortimer Zuckerman
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. — Hillary Clinton
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