Quotes About Balance

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with imagination. We must practice.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

May be it is good that we can't quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.