Quotes About Balance

My only advice for reading the book is stop reading when it is no longer fun.

So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

Part of running a successful tyranny is knowing when and how to let your subjects off the leash

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

The perfectionist writes, paints, creates with one eye on her audience. Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly grading the results. The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain.

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. EUGÈNE DELACROIX

going sane feels just like going crazy.

The obsession with time is really an obsession with perfection.

A mind too active is no mind at all. THEODORE ROETHKE

Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.

Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine   timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.

Trying to do "one more thing," we do much less.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.

Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.

Many of us find that we have squandered our own creative energies by investing disproportionately in the lives, hopes, dreams, and plans of others.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. "How like art

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. EDDIE CANTOR