Quotes About Balance

We can only absorb so much anxiety without becoming sick or symptomatic ourselves.

The more we carve out a clear and separate "I," the more we can experience and enjoy both intimacy and aloneness.

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

As in golf, so in the rest of our lives. We practice our strengths but ignore our weaknesses. You can see the waste. You can only improve your strengths so much, if at all. Even if you improve them, there's a good chance no one will notice; slight improvements are hard to spot. What people do notice are your weaknesses; if you can improve those, your improvement can be dramatic, and visible to everyone. Find your weaknesses and work on them.

Two bits of advice. One, always write what you love. Two, always write what the market wants. It's not that those two things are in opposition really. It's just that you have to find an intersection between the two. Writing an unmarketable book just strikes me as silly. Writing a book you don't love – now that would be evil.

I know I would be happier if the Court didn't plunge back and forth from left to right, just by the addition of a new Justice.

Each provision of the Constitution is important, and I cannot subscribe to a doctrine of unlimited absolutism for the First Amendment at the cost of downgrading other provisions.

He doesn't sacrifice himself for others, nor does he expect others to be sacrificed for him. He takes the third alternative —  he  finds  relationships  that  are  mutually beneficial so that no sacrifice is required.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

At my age, I find I must be careful of my sleep, for I need it more but have more trouble winning it.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

All too often, people make the mistake of focusing too much on the content of their

Harvey Diamond

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

You have heard it from me many times by now, but I will say it again—to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body. This

to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body.