Quotes About Balance

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability

innovation without discipline leads to disaster.

The idea that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action"—and that we should embrace an overall ethos of "Fast! Fast! Fast!"—is a good way to get killed. 10X leaders figure out when to go fast, and when not to.

but is simplicity enough?

We know some effective leaders who work only 40–50 hours a week, but who we nonetheless classify as very hard workers—their level of intensity and concentration when at work is incredibly high. Conversely, we know some workaholics who work 90 hours per week and are basically ineffective. More is not necessarily better.

If you must have more than one priority, then keep it to a maximum of three—any more than three priorities is an admission that you don't really have any priorities.

Kenneth Atchity, president of Atchity Entertainment International, observed that there is a vital difference between managing time and managing work: work is infinite; time is finite. Work expands to fill whatever time is allotted to it. To be productive, therefore, you must manage your time, not your work. The key question to ask yourself is not "What am I going to do?" but "How am I going to spend my time?

quando in una famiglia c'erano più lavoratori che membri non lavoratori, la famiglia riduceva lo sforzo lavorativo complessivo una volta assicurata la produzione sufficiente.

Before we get too wrapped around the axle

Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.' 

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

Karma es el principio del conocimiento. Después, está la paciencia. La paciencia es muy importante. Los pacientes son fuertes, Anjín-san. Paciencia significa dominar nuestra inclinación hacia las siete emociones: odio, adoración, gozo, ansiedad, irritación, dolor y miedo. Si las resistes, eres paciente, y pronto comprenderás todas las cosas y estarás en armonía con la Eternidad.»

For the last time: 'The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami.

Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

All gods bear witness! The Jade Gate and the One-Eyed Monk are truly yin and yang, truly everlasting, truly godlike, both insatiable however much one consumes the other.

Death and life are the same thing. This is the immutable law of nature.

But generally there's good in evil people and evil in good people. You must choose the good and get rid of the evil without sacrificing the good. There's no waste in my domains to be cast away lightly.

priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain

grace is neither bright nor dark. it merely is. it is the heart of the wielder that is either bright or dark.

The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.

No more calamities... I don't want you to stop trying to save the world, Cotton. But I don't want you to expect to save it, either.

Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.