Quotes About Balance

We're all something we're not,' he said. 'Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be. And there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: "For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

While most humans are wired to be reasonably decent, a few are wired to be utter shits -- and they do tend to tip the balance.

Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling, said Square. If it weren't so commonplace, it would seem miraculous - like much out here, to be truthful.

Intentamos que el arte sea perfecto porque en la vida real jamás lo logramos

Those that see to much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

The four opposing forces in any novel are atmosphere, plot, character and pace. But they don't have to be in equilibrium. You can have a book without any plot or pace at all, but it has to make up for it in character and a bit of atmosphere—like The Old Man and the Sea. Most thrillers are plot and pace and nothing else, such as Where Eagles Dare. But it doesn't matter; each to a reader's own—

I'm sorry," I said. "It's been a tough day, and my nerves are in shreds. I need to get home and have a long, hot bath and then a martini." Thursday5 thought for a moment. "After you've drunk the long, hot bath," she observed, "you'll never have room for the martini.

Equality is a proven myth.

lo bueno llevado al extremo se convierte en malo.

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

75-25 rule: 75 percent of your newsletter should give solid information of worth and value; 25 percent can give selling information.

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

What on my to do list is possibly more important than taking the time to anchor myself in my own presence?

Extremists usually describe the middle course as extreme.

You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.

Patriotism was a great thing but it worked best when it was tempered by common sense.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

You know what they say about your greatest strength." "It's also your greatest weakness," she said quietly. "Right. The only defense anyone has is to be aware of both." He used his fork to spear another bite of salmon. "Play to one and guard against the other.

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic? Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system.

Just as medieval society was balanced on God and the Devil, so ours is balanced on consumption and its denunciation.

The balance of terror is the terror of balance.