Quotes About Balance

I was high on life, but eventually I built up a tolerance.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

I think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does.

You get spread out. All the demands on your time and energy leave you feeling like there isn't enough of you left to be a good dad, friend, spouse, and employee at the same time.

Men who leave the workforce for family reasons can expect to earn 26.4 percent less later in their careers than they would have had they never left the workforce. Women face a 23.3 percent financial penalty.

In study after study, the overwhelming majority of men aged twenty to forty-five say that having a work schedule that lets them spend more time with their family is more important than doing challenging work or even earning a high salary.

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

The primary factor is proportions.

A climber arrives, fairly pumped, at a clipping stance on a sport climb. He is ten feet out from his last bolt and very anxious to get clipped in. He's tense, over-gripping, and out of balance. Gritting his teeth, close to falling, he finally makes the clip—and instantly relaxes. Immediately he finds another good handhold within reach. A sloping foothold he mistrusted suddenly feels very adequate.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Golf is like a love affair if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms, then there will be too much cheating, and cooperation will break down. However, if the group is too rigid in its social norms, then it will fail to adapt to new circumstances.

I will do it tomorrow," said Toad. "Today I will take life easy.

I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.