Quotes About Balance

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I never really had long range plans. I take one season at a time, every day at a time.

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.

Furthermore, I don't believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I don't take pressure. I can't really work under pressure. I do one film at a time, and I try to live in that character and in the moment. I am not a futuristic person who thinks what is going to happen after five years. And I don't live in the past.

I'm not a gadget freak.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

To the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely to look better, feel better, lose weight and gain health.

There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every day.

I drink a gallon of water a day.

When I started 'Game of Thrones,' the first three seasons, I still DJ'd every night before I went on set. I'd finish DJing at 3 A.M. and have to be on set at 5 A.M.

I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.