Upside Down Quotes

• Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

  John Heider

  Backwards

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.36, Green Dragon Books

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• I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Perspective, Watches, Situation

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• Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

  Rumi

  Worry, Trying, Way

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• Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

  Dick Francis

  Looks, Granted, Absolutely Nothing

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• The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Hands, Sides, World

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• I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

  Tibor Kalman

  Always Trying, Looks, Down And

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• When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Lying, Heart

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• When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff.

  John Krasinski

  Quality, Stuff

  "John Krasinski Talks PROMISED LAND, Collaborating with Matt Damon, Getting Input from Aaron Sorkin, THE OFFICE, Developing His Own Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2013.

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Glasses

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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• Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

  Zayn Malik

  Thinking, Funny Things, Life Is

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• Just knowing that the world is round
  Here I'm dancing on the ground
  Am I right side up or upside down?
  Is this real or am I dreaming?

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Real, Knowing

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• Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bottom, Ifs

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• Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Struggle, Whole Life, Whole

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.892, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

  Tom Waits

  Want, Timer, I Can

  Interview with Terry Gross, whqr.org. November 3, 2011.

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• Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  World, Down And, Hell

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• Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

  Jon Foreman

  Our World, Order, True Life

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• to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

  Robert Fulghum

  World, Our Love, Turns

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• Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

  Eric Clapton

  Love You, World, Fool

  Song: Layla

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• If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

  Eduardo Galeano

  World, Way, Turns

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• Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.

  Jon Krakauer

  Uplifting, Passion, Cutting

  Jon Krakauer (2010). “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman”, p.100, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

  Daphne Guinness

  Creativity, Blood, Brain

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  When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Nice, Mean, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Moments, Possibility, Exposed

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