Quotes About Balance

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

I want to direct more often. The job of a producer brings its own benefit as you start to see the simplicity of film making. But yes there is a constant battle between the director and producer in me.

Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.

We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

She is a wide bed who holds both democracy and empire

Tolstoy had thirteen kids and wrote War and Peace.

When you and I set out to create anything—art, commerce, science, love—or to advance in the direction of a higher, nobler version of ourselves, we uncork from the universe, ineluctably, an equal and opposite reaction.

And as for the wheel you speak of,' my master finished, 'like every other, it turns both ways.

I have conquered the need to conquer the world

The field is leveled only in heaven.

A good life is the balance between despair and dancing.

Weisman's book, The World Without Us, grew out of two questions, he said. One was, How can I write a best-seller about the environment? The answer to that was the second question: How would the rest of nature behave without the constant pressure we put on it?

We finesse climate, or climate finesses us.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.

Success to him meant having the time to do nothing.

You're proud of your ability to both believe and question everything. Secretly you think everyone does, but at some point they give in, surrender to the comfort of certainty. It's too much trouble, this endless jousting of belief and doubt, too tiring. Finally you suppose it will break you, yet strangely it's the only thing that keeps you going - though, true, at times you feel unbalanced, even somewhat mad.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

You may be asking yourself at this very moment, Why isn't Stormie's husband writing this book? The answer is simple. He's just like you. He is a busy man, with places to go, people to see, work to do, a family to support, food to eat, a life to live, golf to play, ball games to watch, channels to flip, and a chronic lack of patience when it comes to writing. It's not that he doesn't pray.

Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 11:11).

If you want to love, express hate. If you want to hate, express love.