Quotes About Counterintuitive

#1. As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Brene Brown

#2. Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.

Rob Bell

#3. We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible's single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

Ann Coulter

#5. The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. It seems counterintuitive, but the more altruistic your attitude, the more benefits you will gain from the relationship," writes LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. "If you set out to help others," he explains, "you will rapidly reinforce your own reputation and expand your universe of possibilities.

Adam M. Grant

#7. It's for this reason that, however counterintuitive it may seem, psychologists actually recommend that we fail early and often.

Shawn Achor

#8. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Jay Samit

#9. It's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#11. To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Mark Helprin

#12. We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if - and this is the counterintuitive bit - even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.

Peter Watts

#13. It's only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for modern physics.

Sean Carroll

#14. One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Jonah Peretti

#15. The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Carl Sagan

#16. Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

Penn Jillette

#17. Humanity badly needs things that are big and fearsome and homicidally wild. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we need to preserve those few remaining beasts, places, and forces of nature capable of murdering us with sublime indifference.

David Quammen

#18. I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

Malcolm D. Lee

#19. It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.

Kelli O'Hara

#20. Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

J.P. Moreland

#21. Leadership takes continuous, counterintuitive, ego-minimizing work.

Anonymous

#22. Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

Penn Jillette

#23. With his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in

Malcolm Gladwell

#24. Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Chuck Klosterman

#25. Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Trip Adler

#26. But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis.

Preston Sprinkle

#27. It might seem counterintuitive, but bringing conflicts to light is the charismatic thing to do. Have the courage to call out when there is tension beneath the surface of an interaction. Let people know when they transgress boundaries, even when you want their favor.

Charlie Houpert

#28. Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

Elon Musk

#29. To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

Diane Paulus

#31. I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Louise Mensch

#32. Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive.

Dan Brown

#33. I have found, without a doubt, that when I manage to get outside myself and not make myself the center, I'm always taken care of in whatever situation I'm in, even if I'm slow to recognize it. It's counterintuitive thinking on some level and not consistently easy to do.

Patrick Fabian

#34. Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

Mary Lou Retton

#35. Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

Patrick Lencioni

#36. The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.

Jonny Steinberg

#37. I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

Charlie Kaufman

#38. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.

Blake Mycoskie

#39. I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.

Karen Elson

#40. Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

Renee Fleming

#41. We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

Eleanor Catton

#42. Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

Charlie Hunter

#43. This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

Jane Chen

#44. Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

Justin Buzzard

#45. I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Susan Orlean

#46. We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

Clayton Christensen

#47. It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

Kristen Stewart

#48. Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you've just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn't know?

Courtney Kirchoff

#49. We also have a new motivation to battle with sin: we're no longer under law, but under grace. This is counterintuitive. People think that law and legalism will best motivate us to strive to do what's right. But it's grace that enables us to live for God. "For

Tim Chester

#50. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#51. In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

Hassan Rouhani

#52. As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Andy Stanley

#53. The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Michael Shermer

#54. The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Steven Rattner

#55. I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive.

Lynsey Addario

#56. The idea that the Lord wanted me to make prayer such a driving emphasis seemed counterintuitive to positioning the church for revival. How could it be that quite possibly the most unpopular activity in church culture could become a birthing center for a history-making move of the Holy Spirit?

Michael Brown

#57. Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#58. I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Felix Dennis

#59. It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.

Martin Rees

#60. Sessioning is simply the process of showing your player an exit for a play session. It might seem counterintuitive, but it appears in a great number of successful F2P titles. It is, to reuse the soap opera analogy, a cliffhanger.

Will Luton

#61. When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

Tom DeMarco

#62. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

Malcolm Gladwell

#63. Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Charles Lapworth