Quotes About Balance

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

In giving latitude to his individual fantasy, and especially to his ability to synthesise previously separate elements in a way which breaches the existing canon of taste, he initially reduces his chance of finding resonance in the public. [...] In this respect, too, without realizing it, Mozart had inaugurated another shift in the balance of power.

Laszlo Bock, the former head of human resources at Google, has investigated the optimal amount of "work from home" time.45 He found it to be one and a half days a week. With this combination, employees both have time to connect and build bonds with each other and also time on their own to do deeper, undistracted work.

One must be both subjectively involved in and objectively detached from life, and that true happiness rests neither in the one sphere nor in the other exclusively, but rather in achieving a harmonios balance - however fragile - between the two.

Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock.

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four

it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: "The biggest problem in my life," he said, "is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine.

If we objectively balance the good things Ali did against the bad, there's no question he's ultimately heroic. But that's not the issue. The issue is that these kinds of questions are never weighed objectively. That's not how the court of public opinion operates.

I have always tried to live by a simple principle: if I am sober enough to drive, I am too sober to dance.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.

Full-time drudge. Part-time God.