Quotes About Balance

Further, the size of the sample you take and the length of time over which you measure are essential elements of making a prediction. And of course, you have to be using valid data. So it's important to balance the statistics and the context.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.

This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all emotion as "energy in motion," instead of deeming some emotions as threatening and to be avoided, while we find others so seductive that we are driven uncontrollably into activity because of them.

The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other. . . . This is something that has been happening in the church from almost the very beginning. . . . When the whole emphasis is placed upon one or the other, you either have a tendency to fanaticism and excess or a tendency toward a barren intellectualism and a mechanical and a dead kind of orthodoxy.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

The darkness will always outnumber the stars.

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

There can be no light without darkness, no calm without the storm, no peace without war. Others will come, as they always have, and it will be up to us to drive them back into the shadows so that the covenant can be renewed once more.

A good, general ratio is one-third backswing, two-thirds follow-through, that is, a follow-through twice as long as your backswing. That

strongly recommend a slight inward knee flex, as if one were holding a volleyball between the knees, or there

The purpose of conflict is to create.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.

There is a fatal internal contradiction in seeing "democracy" as being nothing more than majority rule, rather than a set of restrictions on majority rule: