Quotes About Balance

L'aria fresca e il lavoro duro sono rimedi infallibili contro la stupidità dell'amore.

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while they're in New Zealand.

To be considered part of the fashion zeitgeist is fun, but it will never steal my focus from my qualifications as a food writer, presenter and communicator.

Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.

Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Led Zeppelin is part of my life, a huge part, that I enjoy immensely. But I don't want people to think this is all that I do. There is a creative side to my brain that needs to be fed, too.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Basically, when I get home I just do emails for around three hours, which stinks. I have a thing about getting into your inbox every night before going to bed. I'm usually working from my laptop or my phone, desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

I don't go to the gym to become size zero, I go there to be healthy and fit and it shows in my skin and my hair.

Fitness, for me doesn't mean a bikini body or a size zero. I just strive to be and feel healthy.

It's a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government's right to regulate individuals.

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.