Quotes About Balance

In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs.

The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Gauß kam auf den Zufall zu sprechen, den Feind allen Wissens, den er immer habe besiegen wollen. Aus der Nähe betrachtet, sehe man hinter jedem Ereignis die unendliche Feinheit des Kausalgewebes. Trete man weit genug zurück, offenbarten sich die großen Muster. Freiheit und Zufall seien eine Frage der mittleren Entfernung, eine Sache des Abstands...

Which is better, to cover the earth with a carpet or to put on shoes?

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.

Utilitarianism: A moral and political philosophy that proposes the doctrine of the greatest good/happiness for the greatest number of people. According to one of Utilitarianism's chief architects, Jeremy Bentham, the basic idea is to find a balance between the individual's happiness and the happiness of the community, "each counting in an equal way." In positing happiness as its aim, Utilitarianism is a type of hedonism.

Tómate más tiempo y abarca menos terreno.» THOMAS MERTON

I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

Work without working, and play without playing. Do without doing, and be without being. To live an effortless life, simply be yourself.

Become peace. Bathe all you meet with your serenity. In doing so, peace will be abundantly yours.

Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing, a term coined by the Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of the fields of organization theory and information processing. Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough. For things that don't matter critically, we make a choice that satisfies us and is deemed sufficient.

the fundamental needs of a vibrant economy and the fundamental needs of a happy individual are not necessarily the same.

war. A balanced peace is a poor fertilizer for promotion.

In planting trees, aim to perpetuate an ecosystem, not a plantation.

Podem ir caçar, mas não se esqueçam de que nossa tradição nos lembra de abater apenas os seres da natureza suficientes para alimentar nosso corpo. Ninguém deve sacrificar um baripnia [parente] por esporte ou por prazer. Cada ser é nosso baripnia e devemos sempre respeitá-lo.

cada ser da natureza, inclusive o homem, precisa compreender que seu lugar na natureza não é ser o senhor, mas um parceiro, alguém que tem a missão de manter o mundo equilibrado, em perfeita harmonia para que o mundo nunca despenque de seu lugar.

Photographer William Leftwich was rewarded for his nervy visit to the uppermost reaches of the RCA's steel frame when two workers standing fifteen feet apart on a single beam began to toss a football back and forth.

The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (2005). He advises that a leader "needs to be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed" (p. 7). He encourages leaders to examine all arguments without forming an opinion, using an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote for support: "The test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time while still retaining the ability to function

Flexibility, spontaneity, and complete freedom of thought and action are the only ways to respond successfully to the constant flux of nature and thus live in accord with the Tao.

In light of the evidence against antibiotics, you should think twice before using them, and when you do, you should increase your daily dosage of vitamin and mineral supplements to replenish lost nutrients and also take a supplemental source of lactobacteria, such as Rejuvelac, to restore the friendly intestinal flora destroyed by the antibiotics.