Quotes About Balance

doesn't enjoy food that is aggressively healthy

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

We can discover such civilized eating again

If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.

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.

Falling in love often is crucial. You just have to let it nourish you without giving in to it. Why turn it off entirely? Why deaden any part of yourself? Won't death do that for you, and soon enough?

You can achieve knowledge only through comparing the two sides, positive and negative, which have become separated from each other. As long as these two sides are together, resting in each other, you can't perceive or recognize anything.

Everything that happens is only a searching and striving to return to equilibrium ... back to paradise!

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."

A plant in which everyone is working all the time is very inefficient.

All those calls and meetings were fire fighting. I remind myself. No fires, no fighting. Now, everything is running smoothly— almost too smoothly.

The new orders have changed the balance. We took more orders, which by themselves didn't turn any resource into a new bottleneck, but they did drastically reduce the amount of spare capacity on the non-bottlenecks, and we didn't compensate with increased inventory in front of the bottleneck.

Balance flow, not capacity.

Actually, the flow should be a tiny bit less than the demand.

Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.

What we know now," I tell him, "is that we shouldn't be looking at each local area and trying to trim it. We should be trying to optimize the whole system. Some resources have to have more capacity than others. The ones at the end of the line should have more than the ones at the beginning—sometimes a lot more. Am I right?

Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side.

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There is a great distance between encouragement and immodesty.

The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out?

Prayer balances out the power struggle in difficult relationships, because when you have a relationship with God, you are no longer so vulnerable or reactive.

Four ingredients help make self-control possible: humor, prayer, work, and friends.