Johann Johannsson Quotes

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

To "go to extremes" is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

I live in the extremes.

I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.

I'm a child of extremes.

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous idea and fevered view, the more worthy you are of attention.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

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

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.