Invert Quotes

• It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Axes, World, Strange

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1855, Simon and Schuster

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• En el viejo mundo, dedicabas el 30% de tu tiempo a crear un gran servicio y el 70% a darlo a conocer. En el nuevo mundo, eso se invierte

  Jeff Bezos

  Motivación, Educación, Mundo

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• Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

  Stephen Covey

  Victory, Conservative, Privacy

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Moving, Reading

  "La poética del ensueño". Libro de Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Hay una sabiduría que es desdicha; pero hay una desdicha que es locura.

  Ismael

  Gorges, Woe, Madness

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• No te entregues, pues, al fuego, no sea que te invierta, te mate, como a mí me hizo por un tiempo. Hay una sabiduría que es desdicha; pero hay una desdicha que es locura.

  Herman Melville

  Fuego, Dar, Ay

  Herman Melville (1892). "Moby Dick", p.400

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• Las victorias privadas preceden a las victorias públicas.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Keeping Promises, Victory

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). "Principle Centered Leadership", p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Order, Wages, Firsts

  1889 On the London dock strike.

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• Es mejor invertir la realidad que copiarla.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Reality, Copies

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• Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

  William Wegman

  Locales

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• Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Nice, Fall

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Differences, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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• Invert, always invert.

  Charlie Munger

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• Todo el mundo sabía que si dividías la realidad por las expectativas, obtenías un cociente de felicidad. Pero cuando se invertía la ecuación -expectativas divididas por realidad- no se obtenía lo contrario de la felicidad. Lo que obtenías, se dio cuenta Lewis, era esperanza.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Opposites, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1018, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Soulmate, Order, Two

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• No digo que la publicidad vaya a desaparecer. Pero el equilibrio está cambiando. Si hoy la receta del éxito es dedicar el 70% de la energía a dar a conocer tu servicio y el 30% a hacerlo genial, en los próximos 20 años creo que eso se va a invertir.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Successful, Thinking

  "The Zen of Jeff Bezos" by Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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• Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Art, Dark, Silence

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• That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

  Oliver Harris

  Letters, Able, Rewriting

  Fuente: bigother.com

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• You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, "I don't need them in this context" or "I can't understand this," they are no longer rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Artist, Men, Creating

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ¡Cuántos jóvenes, en todas las épocas anteriores de estabilidad sin precedentes, se habían vuelto repentinamente salvajes y perversos por la misma razón, y, en un éxtasis de amor no correspondido, habían arrancado las aldabas de las puertas e invertido las cajas de los vigilantes reumáticos!

  Charles Dickens

  Desamor, Tomado, Amor no correspondido

  Charles Dickens (1868). "Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations", p.193

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• Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Moving, Sacrifice, Player

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• One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Opposites, Proliferation

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• That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

  William James

  Independent, Mean, Reality

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.27, 谷月社

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• A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Libro, Ganar, Años

  Salman Rushdie (1989). "Los versos satánicos", New York, N.Y. : Viking

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