Quotes About Balance

A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic - others would describe it as dangerous.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they're not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.

I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.

I may have had some symptoms as early as 1998 - dizziness, vision problems, balance. Anyway, it's been a progression, it hasn't stopped since I first noticed it. Each year there is a considerable decline.

I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.

I like everything I wear to be in sync.

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

My wrestling actually helps my striking and my striking helps my wrestling. I just learned how to put it all together through synergy.

Restrictiveness is not synonymous with food.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself.