Quotes About Balance

It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.

Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the trees and just take a moment.

You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.

Being a mountain boy, I have always understood the importance of trees, animals and nature for a human being.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

I love running around trees as much as a serious role.

I have felt many times trapped by 'Star Trek.' It cost me dearly. It won't anymore, because I've come to grips with what it is and where it fits in my life.

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

My mother did a tremendous job of raising four children in Ottawa under a spotlight.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I found that my body personally got to a point where I needed something more.

'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

I'm blessed with the fact that I don't need a tremendous amount of sleep.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

I wanted to give the best to my kids. Thankfully, my husband has done tremendously well for us and I was never stressed to continue working at the cost of neglecting them.

A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are more equipped to deal with everything life throws our way.