Balance Quotes

• When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Success
  • Balance

• We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.

  

  Prescott Bush
  • Life
  • School
  • Political

• I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

  

  Little Simz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Equality

• The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Balance

• Budgets that don’t balance, public programs that aren’t funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren’t funded – How does that help anyone?

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Money
  • Help
  • Running

• We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Balance
  • Week
  • Season

• Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Always

• I hate people who say New Balance shoes are only for white people. That's not real.

  

  Anders Holm
  • People
  • Real
  • Hate

• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Peace
  • Focus
  • Champion

• In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of 'relationship language' that nourishes the soul.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Soul
  • Relationship

• I went very close to the edge, but it's nice to have been strong enough to get through it. I'm lucky I had family, a good husband, and my mom. People like that help balance you. When you're feeling down and bad, it's the people that love you who kind of sort your head out for you.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Party
  • Balance

• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  

  David Douglas
  • Rest
  • Moving
  • Daily

• If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Work
  • Different
  • Society

• Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

  

  Joe Klein
  • Men
  • Balance
  • Senior

• I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Time
  • Family
  • Paris

• It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Balance

• At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Balance

• It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Unbelievable
  • Aircraft
  • Twelve

• Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Life
  • Work
  • Balance

• I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Time
  • Listening
  • Balance

• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Balance

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