Quotes About Balance

The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that.

I want to be one tone, and I want to glow.

Before pregnancy, I would box, do SoulCycle, and do some pretty intense circuit training in the gym. When I got pregnant, I realized I'd need to tone some of that stuff down and remove some altogether, but was determined to maintain the mental and physical health benefits of exercise.

I want to promote a healthy lifestyle where I'm toned, I'm not too skinny, I'm the weight I want to be.

I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire to anorexia.

I feel the pressure to be toned, yeah, and everyone's going on about the thigh gap, but I like food more than exercise, so I'll just carry on that way.

I look at a lot of my fights and I'm like, 'man, that was too greedy.' I can even look back on my fights, even the good ones where I got the knockouts, and think, 'I should have probably toned it down a little bit.'

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Life mixes tones all the time.

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.

My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I think that there's always a time to be tongue-in-cheek, and there's always time for humor, but there's a time to be serious and a time for emotional content.

I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated.