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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. -- Ben Hogan
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. -- Bobby Flay
Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic. -- Alan Grant
Reverse psychology, I do it in front of the mirror. -- Jarod Kintz
Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back. -- Andy Biersack
I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood. -- Kevin Warsh
Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back. -- Bob Burg
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. -- J. D. Salinger
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. -- Maya Angelou
Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup. -- John Wooden
Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper. -- Jane Brody
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse. -- Charles Inglis
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm. -- Michael Scott
It's a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you're cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.' The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.' 'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.' -- S.W. Vaughn
You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success. -- Prentice Mulford
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. -- Roald Dahl
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. -- Abraham Lincoln
Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. -- Jim Carrey
Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life. -- Joseph Murphy
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. -- Philip Yancey
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. -- T. S. Eliot
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct. -- Alexander Hamilton
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for. -- Charles Bukowski
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear. -- Augusten Burroughs
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. -- Will Rogers
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. -- Jacques Maritain
Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. -- S. D Gordon
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it. -- Simone Weil
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark. -- Patti Smith
I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. -- Tony Blair
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? -- Jack London
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you. -- J. Cole
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. -- Thomas Moore
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. -- Helmut Jahn
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. -- River Phoenix
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. -- Shia LaBeouf
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. -- John Stuart Mill
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. -- Julia Cameron
Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer. -- Marc Ostrofsky
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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear. -- Eliot Spitzer
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. -- Pablo Picasso
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. -- Havelock Ellis
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie. -- Robin Leach
I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to travel to new places and try crazy things. I'm a bit of a daredevil, so I have done things like zip lining, parasailing, scuba diving, and reverse bungee jumping! -- Caroline Sunshine
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. -- Sebastian Thrun
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' -- John Piper
If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse. -- Salma Hayek
On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both. -- Yehuda Berg
See, decide, attack, reverse. -- Erich Hartmann
Copying is about reverse-engineering. -- Austin Kleon
Adoption is grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
Fear is faith in reverse gear. -- Napoleon Hill
Friends are just enemies in reverse -- Gary Busey
Enemies are just friends in reverse. -- Gary Busey
Love without limits; reverse the hate. -- Orlando Jones
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. -- Aimee Bender
I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate. -- Orlando Jones
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion.. -- Anonymous
Any slower and he'd be in reverse. -- Andre-Pierre Gignac
There's no such thing as reverse racism. -- Paul Mooney
A right is a responsibility in reverse. -- E. B. White
For me, adoption was grief in reverse. -- Jody Cantrell Dyer
The future is but the obsolete in reverse. -- Vladimir Nabokov
You have the power to reverse your age. -- Deepak Chopra
the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. -- Susan Abulhawa
From that moment the pendulum went into reverse -- Gerald Sinstadt
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse. -- Salman Rushdie
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse. -- Ben Horowitz
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant -- Derek Landy
You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions. -- Deepak Chopra
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. -- Juvenal
I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it -- Missy Elliot
One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel. -- James Jeans
Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility. -- Marguerite Steen
A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse -- Arthur C. Buckner
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Will Rogers
I want to do the reverse of what people would think. -- Mark Indelicato
You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. -- Francis Crick
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. -- Mason Cooley
I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse. -- Paul Virilio
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. -- Hannah Arendt
Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey. -- Edward Kennedy
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. -- Elliott Abrams
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. -- William Shenstone
When you feel stuck in reverse, take a breath and let go. -- Judith Orloff
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. -- Steven Pinker
Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse. -- William Delbert Gann
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course. -- Joseph J. Romm
No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. -- Chris Murphy
Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. -- Herman E. Daly
You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true. -- Marshall Vian Summers
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. -- Len Deighton
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits. -- Michel de Montaigne
Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong -- Jack D. Schwager
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. -- Anthony Trollope
In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse. -- Warren Buffett
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. -- Rachel Cusk
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again -- David Guetta
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse -- Joseph Roux
It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods. -- Marion Nestle
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. -- Vladimir Nabokov
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. -- Napoleon Hill
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse. -- Mary Wesley
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51. -- Annie Jacobsen
There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. -- Esther Hicks
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. -- Frederick E. Crane
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! -- Archimedes

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