Quotes About Balance

The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.

Breathe in the smell of exhaust and body odor, breathe out your health and sanity.

a better lifestyle that makes work enjoyable because it's not the only thing on the menu. Shed

Embracing remote work doesn't mean you can't have an office, just

Remote work is not without cost or compromise. In

If you work on A, can you still do B and C before April? If not, would you rather have B and C instead of A? If you're stuck on something for a long period of time, that means there are other things you're not getting done.

If you're constantly staying late and working weekends, it's not because there's too much work to be done. It's because you're not getting enough done at work. And the reason is interruptions.

Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries. Value is about balance.

In reality, it's overwork, not underwork, that's the real enemy in a successful remote-working environment.

If work is all-consuming, the worker is far more likely to burn out. This is true even if the person loves what he does. Perhaps especially if he loves what he does, since it won't seem like a problem until it's too late.

It's much likelier to breed a culture of overwork if managers and owners are constantly putting in He-Man hours.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi.

You need less than you think

The Force is not a power you have," Luke said. "It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things—a tension, a balance that binds the universe together.

Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality.

Lancaster takes us back to where we started, but with a brilliant twist. The test of intelligence is indeed the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in one's mind, appreciate both, and still function. But you don't have to be the be-all and end-all expert in your business at one side or the other. In fact, you can be the one who doesn't excel at either. You can be the one who appreciates both and creates the conditions for both sides to flourish.

Here's the list of opposing ideas that successful reinventors say you need in your head: Hold on tight and freely let go. Be hard-nosed and soft hearted. Focus on a clear destination and search for new horizons. Take big risks and make small bets. Be frugal and still splurge. Think big and act small. Be highly creative and obsessively down-to-earth. Thoughtfully work your plan and improvise without thinking too much.

I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.

The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

My body wasn't something to be starved or cut or filled with booze until I blacked out; it was something to be taken care of.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.