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Quotes About Balance

the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!
~ Ruth Draper
My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
~ Sally Pearson
Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
~ Sarah Churchwell
After I finish PO5, I would like to get a dog. I want to be able to spend more time with my pet, and I don't have the time right now.
~ Scott Wolf
We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
~ Sherry Turkle
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
~ Stephen Sondheim
You can't say yes to every role and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
~ Tahj Mowry
That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.
~ Viola Davis
I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
~ Yani Tseng
I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.
~ Michelle Obama
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
~ A. R. Ammons
I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
~ Alonzo Mourning
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
~ Amos Oz
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
~ Annie Lennox
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Our necessities never equal our wants.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.
~ Charlie Ergen
I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.
~ Chris Thile
I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.
~ Cody Johnson
It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
~ Dan Brown
You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.
~ Elisabeth of Wied
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.
~ Erykah Badu