Quotes About Balance

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.

When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there.

Over the years, I've found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Cooking is a great leveller. You can be a sports star, an actor, an entrepreneur, anything, but cooking strips it all away.

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

Parents who achieve a successful work-life balance don't live and breathe to make their kids happy. Instead, they strive to raise independent children that will grow to become responsible adults.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

Most importantly, I strive for function above all in every house.

It's the manager's job to always knock on the door, to always strive to improve, but there has to be a reasonable degree of common sense too.

I just enjoy what I do, I don't really strive for perfection, I don't feel pressurised by the competition.

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.