Eliot Sumner Quotes

I always go extreme ways.

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

I am a very extreme sort of character, as I don't do things by halves.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I can't do anything in moderation.

I'm all or nothing.

Whoever has a principle, must go with it to the extreme, not hold by a middle.