Quotes About Balance

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

There are things that I am doing apart from films to keep me normal. Otherwise, emotionally, it is very draining.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that's easily relatable.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Our lives are really hectic, and I think that's challenging.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

I believe much of our lives is about guilt management.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.