Quotes About Balance

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. But you still don't want to get any on you.

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

While it's fun to be near someone interesting for occasional chats, being stuck next to a person who will not stop talking for nine hours is my idea of hell.

Just as there is an advice paradox, there is a data paradox: no matter how much data you have, you still depend on your intuition for deciding how to interpret and then apply the data.

Urgent problems were assigned to the developer with the least on his plate, but as these issues accumulated, I worried we'd spend more time doing maintenance than new work. All services require maintenance, but when you spend more time maintaining than growing, something is wrong.

It's a shockingly recent notion that work and play should be mutually exclusive things. We learn about ourselves and each other through play, which helps us work together.

Knowing how much friction is needed and when to apply it is the skill that successful leaders, from the coach of a competitive basketball team to the conductor of an orchestra, must master.

After years of leading projects, the best thing I've learned is that I have to periodically shift between thinking small (bazaar) and thinking long term (cathedral).

All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.

My playing fields were comprised of a black and white universe – cold/hot, light/dark, heaven/hell, right/wrong – this, my guide, my birthright. Something was buried in the back of my soul – the signs were all there but no one knew, no one could tell so when I eventually went over the edge, it was meant to be a lesson learned.

we love and hate with equal madness

The Wiccan ideal of morality is simple: do what you want, as long as you harm none.

Wiccans don't perform destructive, manipulative, or exploitive magic.

The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.

My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.

you always have to keep things fun. if you don't, no matter how many awards you win or how much money you make, you will never be happy.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.