Quotes About Balance

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

Don't try to be a good guy. It doesn't matter who owes who. From the instant they enter into a war both sides are evil.

On a visit to a hardware store I heard a man ask, What can I get to kill all the bugs in my yard? I nearly began shrieking.

Those who define themselves by their sense of superiority will live in a world governed not by justice but by persecution, one in which the tables may turn on them without a moment's notice.

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.

I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games.

This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accolades—and those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.

never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness. —Albert Einstein

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!

One of the symptoms of the approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important & that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. Bertrand Russell

The great management guru Charles Handy says that, as far as money goes, you have to look after yourself. He reckons you may need to do something else as well as your "passion project" to earn money, particularly in the early stages of a new business

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A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.

The difficulty is that we get ourselves caught in a double bind: we work so hard that we do not allow ourselves time to dream, and therefore we continue to work hard because we have not had the time to dream up an alternative. If you are ever sacked or made redundant, then I suggest you thank the good Lord above.

In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.