Balance Quotes

• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Dignity

• Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

  

  Alain Prost
  • Balance

• I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Wish

• I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Relationship
  • Balance
  • Linked

• Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Balance

• I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Ocean

• I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Effect

• Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • World
  • Great
  • May

• I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Space
  • Things
  • Balance

• As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Balance
  • Roles
  • Synergy

• I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Giving
  • Energy
  • Calm

• Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.

  

  Andy Burnham
  • Balance
  • Animal
  • Scientific

• Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Balance

• When I came into the league in '85, the regimen for working out was just basic, and as I got older it became more about the core and keeping your body in balance.

  

  Andre Reed
  • Balance
  • League
  • Regimen

• People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Energy
  • Balance

• What is WIND and what is BONE have never been conclusively determined by the generations of Chinese critics, but what is certain, according to Liu Hsieh, is that the perfect combination or balance of WIND and BONE, the metaphor for the ideal poem, is a bird.

  

  Eliot Weinberger
  • Wind
  • Critics
  • Poem

• You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

  

  Nigella Lawson
  • Balance
  • Inside
  • Absorbed

• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Rich

• What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

  

  Alan Chadwick
  • Balance
  • Created
  • Commonly

• Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.

  

  Nyanaponika Thera
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Equanimity

• I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Life
  • Balance

• The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Time
  • Why
  • Action

• The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

  

  Kristine Carlin Bay
  • Home
  • Business
  • Clients

• I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

  

  Will Packer
  • Perfect
  • Sweet
  • Importance

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