Extremes Quotations

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there's two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it's very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

I like things that are unique and extreme.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

We believe that gold is attempting to find a range with the recent extremes of $535 and $555 likely to confine the metal for a while.

We are facing extreme volatility.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

We also study animals at the extremes of performance, creatures that are exceptionally good at one particular thing.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year, ... Principally, that's based on the ability to generate upwards of 90 percent of their salary in overtime expenditures.

We have had the extremes of kids walking out of mediation hugging and kissing to those who just declare a truce and then everything in between.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

The only party you can trust with absolute certainty to protect and look out for Maori interests is the Maori Party. We alone can moderate the extremes of government policies on behalf of Maori.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Losing critical class time is only one issue associated with mobile classrooms. (The) walls (are) so thin that anything happening on the outside can be heard inside, the air conditioners are so loud teachers are limited by what they can do, and when temperatures reach extremes it adds extra stress on the comings and goings.

I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation makes a lot of sense, and Hershey's has really great portion-friendly desserts to help people incorporate treats into their lifestyles so they don't feel like they're depriving themselves and are still living a balanced life.

From the media's perspective, extremes are news, ... completely distorted by the emphasis on what I would call the grotesque or extreme cases.

What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they're hearing. And I think what's problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position.

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

I think he's a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, ... I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I don't think any writer before or since had touched bottom in the human psyche. I think Sade goes there and goes there relentlessly.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.

We do not believe that this correction is over and suspect that gold will now consolidate between recent extremes of $545 and $568, with a break of $575 needed to bring back bullish sentiment.

We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses.

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in

When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

We learned a lot about pressure, pressure that other teams were putting on us and how we've got to play with defensive pressure. Everything is faster. It kind of shows you the extremes that are out there. When you play a good team like Bridgewater, you're not going to be shell-shocked.

Few people have any concept of what it's like to experience the extremes of the Southern Ocean . The relentless frequency of the gales and storms left little time for recovery.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

We saw the level of attention it was getting (nationally) and knew the different extremes that were out there, and felt that we needed to find a balance.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

You have to really love both extremes ? recording is really never moving and being in a hole and playing live is moving every second and never stopping. If you love both of those extremes this is like the best job in the world.

The United States has oscillated between extremes of attention and neglect in Haiti. The basic problem is that our focus has never been continuous.

It was two extremes of influence being put next to each other: the most electronic music we have on the record and the most old, out-of-style music we have on the record.

Some people seem to think, from watching CNN reports from the French Quarter, that everything's back to normal. Others seem to think the city is completely closed and nonfunctional. ... It does seem to be the extremes as opposed to what really is happening.

And the extremes are what make the show so funny.

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

This is a market of extremes, and what you've seen is the extreme to the upside, especially in technology, and extremes to the downside in everything non-tech. What you have to do is to pick the better quality companies in terms of the value companies.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

It's a challenge of weather of extremes in conditions from ice to absolute unbelievable heat of the tropics and the opposition around you all of the time.

I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!

It's certainly a trend. I expect to see more of it. I had never even considered the possibility of charging for aisle seats. It's definitely being taken to extremes at this point.

It's been two extremes for me over the last five years. Whenever we lost early on in the tournament, the feeling has been one of infinite sadness. Now I feel euphoria and infinite happiness. This is a great feeling because it always feels good when you win.

It's very mixed. When you get into an environment like this, the extremes get magnified -- the good do better and the struggling do worse. It's like quicksand.

It was honest and truthful to what I believed was an L.A. cop, not typical of what every cop is. It went and explored these two extremes ... bitter racist cop and really loving son who cares about his sick father. These are the complicated things we see in life.

They would have been impacted by the waves and rain but not by the blunt force. There will be parts of the Gulf where they will be up and running in 48 hours, but there will be other extremes of structural damage that may take weeks or months to repair.

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

In Connecticut, because of our extremes of wealth, you can't rely on census data.

I have no consternation; I know what to expect and I know that I can out last the appetency. However long it takes, under unholy extremes I must not fold. A consummation will be accomplished. But not until I think to myself, I can't take much more, and then do.

I pick sports based on facility availability, the variety of games, and to maximize participation, not to encourage the competitive spirit to extremes like winning at all costs. I don't want players to sacrifice the credibility of their witness for Christ.

Generally, the ozone hole remains close to the (South) Pole, so for human populations, we have to keep an eye on it, and we have to be a bit worried about it, but we don't have to jump to extremes here.

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.