Balance Quotes

• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Problem
  • Rich
  • Awareness

• I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Husband

• As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep us off balance! That's why! Because he doesn't want us to THINK! He doesn't want us to QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY! So he keeps us busy! Keeps us running in circles! Like mice! Rushing from one role to the next! Well, I'm on to his game! I see what he's doing! And I refuse to participate!

  

  Walter Wykes
  • Thinking
  • Comfortable
  • Refuse

• Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Balance
  • Basketball

• When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow your hunger instincts, well, I really just want to pinch their heads off. That's like a millionaire suggesting that instead of worrying about that's in your bank account, just listen to your shopping instincts and buy high-quality goods . . . weight loss is not magic. To a great extent, it's accounting.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • Worry
  • Magic
  • Instinct

• In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

  

  Ellie Krieger
  • Fear
  • Food
  • Guilt

• The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Government
  • Weapons
  • Great Way

• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Brave

• I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Work
  • Wife

• We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Situation

• On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Balance
  • Diet
  • Wins

• Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

  

  Amy Chua
  • Success
  • Thoughts
  • Insecurity

• A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Exercise
  • Movement
  • Function

• Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Balance

• Do you trust in your fellow citizens, in a sense that whatever they will have in additional tools they will use in balance more to the good or more to the bad? If you think they will use it more to the bad, you shouldn't do science, you know.

  

  Erwin Neher
  • Science
  • Trust
  • Citizens

• Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • Goal
  • States

• I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

  

  Mickey Rourke
  • Balance
  • Young
  • Immature

• I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Lines
  • Bits
  • Versus

• It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Little

• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Anxiety
  • Disease
  • Easier

• A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!

  

  Sheldon Harnick
  • Home
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over – balance the bad points.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Love
  • Enemy

• We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Eye
  • Animal
  • Expectations

• White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Design
  • Challenges
  • Harmony

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