Quotes About Balance

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

You've got to be able to go 100 miles per hour in the ring, out of the ring, partying, and you've still got to make all your commitments.

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.

With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Percussion is so good for me!

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Not everything can be perfect.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?