Carre Otis Quotes

Extremes can be right on no side.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

I'm quite moderate.

As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

I feel, in my life, in any situation I've been in, I've always been sort of in the middle.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

You can be right or you can be happy.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Finding the golden mean between alerting and panic is a constant challenge.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.