Quotes About Paradox

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

I'm not a monster; I'm a white rabbit.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

One may be humble out of pride.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

Ted Cruz is the Schroedinger's cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.