Quotes About Balance

don't want to give the impression that perfectly normal, healthy, thoughtful, and balanced people are not drawn to orchids. I am told they exist. I just didn't have much luck finding them

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Few people consider that something as simple as an ill-fitted horseshoe could break a horse as quickly as overburdening it or failing to provide it with adequate rest or fodder.

I didn't understand at all that the memories accumulated during years of happiness could weigh enough to balance so large a loss, or that the mind will sometimes find a way to free the heart from pain.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded—"We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action.

Peace is the opposite of security.

That too seems unnecessarily severe, but we mustn't judge too harshly, for those who have gone through anything like a dramatic conversion usually stagger a bit too far in one direction before they correct their course and learn where the best forward path lies.

Vertical and horizontal lines represented for Mondrian the two opposing life forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine. This

It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard—at the wrong things.

No es suficiente con pedir a los traabajadores que se esfuercen más. Nuestros problemas actuales están provocados por esforzarnos demasiado en las cosas equivocadas

Como dicen en la teoría de sistemas, lo que optimiza una parte del sistema necesariamente debilita el sistema en su conjunto.)

As startups grow, entrepreneurs can build organizations that learn how to balance the needs of existing customers with the challenges of finding new customers to serve, managing existing lines of business, and exploring new business models—all at the same time. And,

We adopted the view that our job was to find a synthesis between our vision and what customers would accept; it wasn't to capitulate to what customers thought they wanted or to tell customers what they ought to want.

Rest can be as deadly a weapon as a pistol or grenade.

There had to be more to life than chasing money and grabbing Power.

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

And there's a lot I need to let go of. But it's so much easier playing a game than living a life.

A rational mind is sometimes the queerest mixture of rationality and irrationality on earth.

I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if your emotions are at the highest level of 10, your ability to reason is at a 0. If it's a 9 then your reasoning is a 1. I am not suggesting that emotions don't have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything.

Part of making yourself a priority is spending time alone.

You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.