Quotes About Balance

The game of work and the business of life are really the same thing, when it comes down to the principles and behaviors and techniques that eliminate distraction and foster beneficial focus.

We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it; much of our daily activity is already defined for us by the undone and unmoved things staring at us when we come to work, or by the family to be fed, the laundry to be done, or the children to be dressed at home.

There is always more to do than you can do, and you can do only one thing at a time. The key is to feel as good about what you're not doing as about what you are doing at that moment. Time

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace Between

No software, seminar, cool notebook, smartphone, or even personal mission statement will give you more than twenty-four hours in a day

strength; just the ability to generate a focused thrust with speed. But a tense muscle is a slow one. So the high levels of training in the martial arts teach and demand balance and relaxation as much as anything else. Clearing the mind to being open and appropriately responsive is the key.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henry Bergson

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler This

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

I do think there is evil. But it is very rare. It is as rare as true goodness. And just as true goodness produces rare saints, true evil produces rare monsters. The rest of us are semi-good, semi-bad, and we live our lives in a kind of half-happy, half-sad daze. We might hope that one sunny morning we find ourselves in the presence of a saint. And we must pray that we do not encounter the monster.

Mes kaip maži paukš?iukai – pus? laiko b?name laimingi, o kit? pus? mirtinai išsigand?.

Money is great to have, but all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.

I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.

I'm not saying that riding the train will change your life, or that passenger rail will be a big moneymaker one day. But no matter how fast we feel we have to go, shouldn't there be room for a train, where you can just sit back, take a breath, and be human for a little while? Just for a little while? Is that so bad?

The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.

Kids make everything better. And harder.

With a perfect memory did not come a perfect mind, or resolute decisions. Sometimes with perfection on one end of the equation, one was left with stark imprecision on the other. Perhaps it was nature's way of balancing things.

I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They

Lo único que puede ser peor que no ver el bosque por culpa de los árboles es no ver los árboles por culpa del bosque. ANÓNIMO

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And

She was as unlike my father as it was possible to be." "Well, they do say opposites attract." "But can opposites exist together for the long term?

The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest. —Anonymous

I would say that one walks hand in hand with fate. Fate pulls in one direction, you pull in the other. You follow fate; fate follows you. And it is not always possible to say who is leading whom.