Extremes Quote by Jon Acuff

“But more than just analysis, perfectionism offers us two distinct distractions: Hiding places Noble obstacles A hiding place is an activity you focus on…

— Jon Acuff

I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and…

— Charlie Munger

I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest.…

— Christopher Titus

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

— Chris Cleave

My childhood was extreme.

— Tori Amos

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

— Alexander Alekhine

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

— Terry Pratchett

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

— Lawrence Lessig

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

— Michel Foucault