Quotes About Balance

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

You have to have this straddling balance of realizing that games are incredibly complex. You can have an idea of where you want to go with something, the structure of something, but the actual moment to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in 'God of War''s case, about five years.

I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.

People are realizing that telecommuting doesn't mean you have to be in New York City five days a week. It means that if you have to stay home for a period of time, having a nice little backyard is not a bad way to do it.

Fairness is what justice really is.

I have always believed that awards are like accessories to a car. They are very similar to the rear view mirror in a car, which gives you the confidence to drive. They sure mean a lot; however, they are not the be-all and end-all of life.

I enjoy watching England but I won't rearrange my schedule just to make sure I'm in to see the game.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

I like fats. I think fat is important. I think there is a reason we have it. Obviously it's part of our dietary makeup, so I don't avoid it.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

I'm quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I'm pretty careful.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.