Quotes About Balance

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

On one hand, I want to be successful and give my best to everything I do, but I don't want to be too consumed by anything.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

If you come to my house there are no bodybuilding pictures or anything in my house. I try to keep that separate, just because it is all consuming and I don't want it around me when I'm at home.

I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

'Law & Order' was amazing but so consuming, I couldn't get to the stage.

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

Everything contains its antithesis.

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Style without content is bad style.

Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.

Contentment does not come from achievement.

That contest between bat and ball, we don't want to lose that or get further away from that even contest.

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away I don't think that's great.

Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.