Perversely Counterintuitive Quotes & Sayings

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work. — Ryan Reynolds

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her. — Mason Cooley

There was no thought in her now, no control. Every sound, every movement - it was pure impulse. Instinct and desire. Truth. — Kit Rocha

A people's art is the genesis of their freedom. — Claudia Jones

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. — Al Smith

Author Malcolm Gladwell believes that one can be an expert at something after putting in ten thousand hours of practice. — Anonymous

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. — David Walliams

Autonomous motivation involves behaving with a full sense of volition and choice," they write, "whereas controlled motivation involves behaving with the experience of pressure and demand toward specific outcomes that comes from forces perceived to be external to the self. — Daniel H. Pink

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. — Pervez Musharraf