Quotes About Balance

Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom

Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.

Nothing is worth your peace of mind, not even your own ego.

We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers

Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to the Stop & Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.

Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives.

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to Stop and Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.

When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

know you have other things to think about, other people who want your time, which I know you probably have to dole out really, really carefully, preserving yourself. Self-preservation is as important as generosity.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job...do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ...What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?

And that's acceptable to you?" Faith took a second. "I always weigh it," she said. "Like with Ecuador. I'm ashamed of what happened. But those young women are free and presumably out of danger. I have to weigh that too, don't I? That's what it's about, this life. The weighing.

Women have to live so much of their life in the in-betweens.

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.

Sometimes it feels like life's about understanding how much opposites meet. Kill to cure, poison to immunize, sacrifice to save.

The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.

Just remember, my dear, not to judge so harshly. There are two sides to every story.

There is no meaning. Only balance. Only symmetry.

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.