"We are only as good as our most extreme experiences"

-- Sloane Crosley

#Extremes Quotes

“In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.”

Source : "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.
“I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.”
“Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.”
“We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.”
“God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.”
“I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.”
“This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.”

Source : "Opening statements expected in trial of ex-Black Panther". www.cnn.com. February 19, 2002.
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1993). “Colony”, G K Hall & Company

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