Quotes About Balance

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

I stay at home a lot by choice but go out a lot due to work. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.

I remember a night when I was living in Swindon on my own, and I couldn't sit on the couch because there were two cushions, and I couldn't sit equally between them.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

I count calories and watch my carbs.

I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

If I'm going to be away from my family then I want to make the practice count more.

I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.

As a captain, I have to be courageous but I also want to be nice off the pitch.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

We need less politics in the courtroom, not more.

I left the city to accomplish something. And by leaving the city and trying to accomplish something, I've been a terrible cousin, brother, son some days.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

A lot of my family going back were cowboys and barrel racers, and I'd say I'm 50 percent high fashion and 50 percent cowgirl.

My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.

I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.

As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our bodies. If you continue to put the same energy into your body, into your craft, I think you'll be all right.