Quotes About Balance

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.

I have the same wind-down routine when I go to bed, whether I'm shooting or not. It's nothing too special - maybe some TV, maybe a book.

I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already.

Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

The only specialized diet that I follow is home-cooked food.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.