“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.” InspirationalDesireTakenBuddhismExtremesFulfillmentCynical Author:Frederick Lenz
“Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.” PeopleTryingMadeMomentsActionJobsCan DoEmotionTakenPlansHappenedEventsDisciplineDistanceExtremesRageTemptedCarelessHowlCoolness Author:George Friedman
“Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.” TakenEqualLogicChaosExtremes Book:Shooting Star Source: Shooting Star
“I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.” NeedsSelfFactsEarthYoungActingMoralTakenPositionProtectScientistClaimsNotionScaryExtremesScalesConsistentRighteousDistortionSelf RighteousScientific FactsMisrepresentation Author:Victor J. Stenger
“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” BeautifulTakenMissingPerfectionScientistPhotographExtremesClaritySubstanceRaysDistinguishedFranklin Author:John Desmond Bernal
“I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.” HardBeautifulResultsTakenWonderfulPressureExtremesDiamondDirtForgivenCoalCrystalsMaking ChangesConsole Author:Maya Angelou
“If there's anyone out there who has taken extreme to a new level, its Joe De Sena - in adventure racing, in business, and ultimately in the business of adventure! Spartan Up! is must-read.” IfsLevelsTakenAdventureExtremesRacing Author:Robyn Benincasa
“Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.” PeopleHas BeensSaidCountryHateMillionsTakenPolicyExampleExtremesToleranceImmigrationOur CountryTolerate Author:Thomas Sowell
“Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.” LooksTakenDangerousExtremesKitsch Author:John Cusack
“We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.” Has BeensTakenCrimeConcernedMurderExtremesPunishmentSanctionsSuitableOffendersCapital PunishmentImposition Author:Potter Stewart
“Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.” KnowsWritingTakenTradeExtremesConfessionMultitudesIncompetenceCredentials Author:George V. Higgins