“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.” KnowsSelfForceSocialCrimePersonalityNormalAreasInstinctExtremesRelyRegionsShyTerritoryRudeAdvancementTabooShynessExtroverts Book:U and I: A True Story Source: U and I: A True Story
“Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.” TwoMatterHappensLife IsMotivationAreasOkayExtremesDividedWhat MattersProfessional Success Author:Gary W. Keller
“I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.” PeopleWorldAbilityClassIssuesSeriousAreasConcernDoctorsImpactMental HealthClimateClimate ChangePassionateExtremesBackgroundsWeatherHospitalsFarmersWorld ClassHealth IssuesHealth SystemExtreme Weather Author:Richard Di Natale
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been . floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.” PeopleWayLooksHas BeensIdeasMovingWrittenPolicyPositionParticularAreasWindowExtremesRealmsComparisonNutsAcceptableModeratesProposal Author:Rachel Maddow
“The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.” CreativityMiddleAreasChaosEdgesExtremesStayingSaneFlexibilitySteering Author:Philippa Perry
“Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.” NeedsWellsStillsPoorRoomsConditionsAreasSuicideRateExtremesImprovementMortalityInfantPoorestInfant Mortality Author:Leonard Peltier
“Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsTrumpAreasProgramBillsCommittedExtremesTerrorismImmigrationRefugeeHostileBill Of RightsAmerican Way Of LifeSyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains so high in some areas that helicopters don't even fly well at a certain altitude because the air becomes so thin. The country has a serious problem of illiteracy, especially after so many years of war and Taliban rule.” YearsWellsWarCountryProblemCertainAirBuildingSeriousMountainAreasSouthExtremesDesertAfghanistanInfrastructureTalibanRebuildingHelicoptersTerrainIlliteracy Author:David Petraeus
“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.” NeedsYearsChildrenDoneHelpingKidsPoorDrawsAreasYears AgoSticksFishesExtremesFranceChickensItemsGood FoodDrumsticks Author:Joel Robuchon
“In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.” BodyEnergyAreasStressExtremesExhausted Author:Daniel Handler
“People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.” PeopleHumansProblemLeftBlackWhiteMoralMiddleAreasExtremesSurfaceCompromiseResolutionGrayBlack And WhiteGuttersWin WinAll BlackHuman ProblemsMiddle Of The RoadGray Area Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.” WorldMindRememberVirtueDoorsMiddleMissingThis WorldDivineEgoOrdinaryAreasClaimsExtremesDisappearVirtuousImbalancePolarity Author:Rajneesh