Quotes About Balance

Ideally, you want to have some guys get that rest... Because after 70-something games, you've practiced enough.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

When I'm practicing, I think I'm pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I'm outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

I'd been wanting to audition for the Raiderettes for a while. The irony is that I didn't have time when I was in law school, but as a practicing attorney I did. I've been dancing since I was 3, so it's natural to want that part of my life, the love of performing, satisfied.

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan to help balance it out.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

I try hard to always question myself and wonder, 'What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?' The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It's the same when you get praise. You can't get carried away with that.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I try not to miss my prayers and the 30 fasts in Ramazan, but even if I do miss them due to my cricket, I make up for them later on.