Quotes About Extremes

Satu-satunya aset paling kuat yang kita miliki adalah pikoran kita. Jika dilatih dengan baik, pikiran bisa menciptakan kekayaan yang luar biasa dalam waktu yang kelihatannya singkat. Pikiran yang tidak terlatih juga bisa menciptakan kemiskinan yang ekstrem, yang bisa mengahncurkan keluarga selama bergenerasi-generasi.

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.

It's been my experience, Requiem, that people become more of who they are in extremes, both good and bad. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.' He

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

The sentence I most sympathized with is 'Whatever hangups this indicated, I'd preferred men who seemed perfectly ordinary' - my sentiments, precisely, about life in general which I don't like to see pushed to fanciful extremes because it's good enough as it is.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I live in the extremes.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

I'm a child of extremes.

Nicolas Winding Refn

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

The art of story is not about the middle ground, but about the pendulum of existence swinging to the limits, about life lived in its most intense states. We explore the middle ranges of experience, but only as a path to the end of the line. The audience senses that limit and wants it reached. For no matter how