Quotes About Balance

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.

Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.

Eigenlijk zou je twee levens moeten hebben: een om te leven en een om te schrijven. Die twee storen elkaar.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

it's funny how life seems only to be able to give and take, instead of just give!

All too often I viewed my work as an obstacle to my spiritual growth.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

Table 3: Tippet Size Matched to Fly Size TIPPET SIZE DIAMETER (INCHES) BALANCES WITH FLY SIZES APPROXIMATE BREAKING STRENGTH (POUND-TEST)* 0X .011 2, 1/0 16 1X .010 4-6-8 14 2X .009 6-8-10 12 3X .008 10-12-14 9 4X .007 12-14-16 6.5 5X .006 14-16-18 5 6X .005 16-18-20-22 3.5 7X .004 18-20-22-24 2.5 8X .003 22-24-26-28 1.75

The Alignment

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Stark raving sane.

Q: What's hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges..

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.