Quotes About Balance

I prioritize people over tasks.

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time?

You need always to balance your tasks at the racetrack and at the factory. Still the factory is important where we are developing the car, preparing the cars.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

I don't have necessarily good taste. I have some really good taste and I have some really awful taste. I don't see the difference, because when you use them together they can work.

Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

When I'm working and I need to taste food, I use a small spoon or eat a small piece, rather than wolfing down an entire piece of cake.

Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

Generally, if two ingredients sound like they're going to taste bad together, they're probably going to taste bad together.

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

I'm a snacker, but also health-conscious. I thought there had to be an alternative to what was out there. But it had to taste good - if it doesn't taste good, it isn't a snack.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

We just wanted to do a chip that tasted great, but wasn't bad for you.

TLC's always been sexy but always tasteful.

There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

The food industry has forced people in-between two choices, either quality food that tastes great and takes a lot of work to make or convenient food thats very, very cheap and bad for you.

My parents have very different tastes. They exposed me to so many different things. I represent both sides.