Quotes About Balance

When I was playing that was the main focus - you knew what you had to achieve but you want to have fun doing it, otherwise there's no point in doing it.

There's no point in doing a dozen films per year, which come and go.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I'm for the most part able to do, it's really no problem, me missing school.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain

Comprendo que el amor y la desdicha van de la mano, ya que lo uno no puede existir sin lo otro; no obstante, muchas veces me pregunto si ese intercambio es justo.

he was choosing the pace of his life rather than having his life choose the pace. Being

Marriage, each of them realised intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance where one person complimented the other.

There was, after all, more to life than work, and I realized I no longer wanted to be the person I'd recently become. I wanted to embrace those things that were important to me and worry less about the things that were beyond my control.

He wants to be a doctor completely devoted to his patients and a man completely devoted to his family. He cannot be both, for there aren't enough hours, but he has yet to learn this.

These days, kids are scheduled from morning to night because parents have demanded it, and London has been no exception.

Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be positioned nearly horizontally out over the river, it would test the limits of what was safe.

Il giorno e la notte sono legati come poche altre cose al mondo, non possono esistere l'uno senza l'altro e tuttavia non possono esistere insieme. Come ci si può sentire, pensai, quando si è sempre uniti e sempre divisi?

Your kids don't watch a lot of television.

Usually he just went about his life, doing what needed to be done and figuring out ways to enjoy the rest of his time.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes – an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend.

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

Ho da poco scoperto che la mia amica Mary, quando finisce un libro, fa passare qualche giorno prima di cominciarne un altro - vuole dare all'ultima lettura un po' più di respiro, prima che venga soffocata dalla prossima. È una cosa sensata, e mi sembra una linea di comportamento assolutamente lodevole. Noi che leggiamo nevroticamente, tuttavia - per scongiurare la noia e il timore dell'ignoranza e della nostra morte imminente - non possiamo permetterci di farlo.