Quotes About Balance

To make a man happy, treat him like a dog - plenty of affection and a loose leash.

If I fancy something I'll have it, but I also make sure I have plenty of veg.

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

I want to do content-oriented plus commercial films.

I like to stay around grounded people, and plus, I'm working so much, I don't get out too much.

Anytime we can get the running game going it is a plus for me and it makes my job a lot easier.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.