Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. Thomas Malthus
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism – as though the man and the work were the same – that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. Robert Rauschenberg
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. Dwight Schultz
A cock says it's because of the situation it is faced with that it has its knees in the opposite direction. African Proverb
My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the opposite. Latin Proverb