Quotes About Balance

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need it!

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

I know when I'm at full capacity, and two children is full capacity for me. If I had three or four, especially as a solo parent, it's a guarantee that I would inadvertently forget to sign at least one of them up for school, or send them off with no transcripts or emergency contacts.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.

I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.

The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.

I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can't solve every problem. But at the same time, judges play a crucial role in safeguarding liberty and protecting the rights of all citizens.

Calm can solve all issues.

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.