Quotes About Balance

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The best way to escape His ireIs, not to seem too happy.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor goodCompensate bad in man, absolve him so:Life's business being just the terrible choice.

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

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

Doing our emotional healing allows us to feel clear about what is in front of us instead of torturing ourselves by obsessively thinking, trying to figure out what's right and what's wrong.

Thank God for Codependence, without it we would not be alive. But now is the time to get things into balance - the time to bring ego-self into alignment and balance with Spiritual Self. That is the transformation which is known as "the death of the ego." To quote theSt. Francis Prayer, "It is through dying that we awaken to eternal life." It is not referring just to physical death, it is referring to the death of the ego which allows us to awaken to the Truth of eternal life.

Attempting to suppress emotions is dysfunctional; it does not work. Emotions are energy: E-motion = energy in motion. It is supposed to be in motion, it was meant to flow.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

I wasna fou, but just had plenty.

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing your career.

Exercise is an important component, as is cutting back on processed meats, such as bacon, sausage and cold cuts, and limiting your intake of hard cheese.

Be food aware—remember that fresh meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, nuts, seeds and occasional fruits and starches are the foods nature intended you to eat.

If you are tired or distracted, do not code.

the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.

A good manager drives a project to be good enough, fast enough, cheap enough, and done as much as necessary. A good manager manages the coefficients on these attributes rather than demanding that all those coefficients are 100%. It is this kind of management that Agile strives to enable.

Providing too much detail can be an invitation for micro-management.

A craftsman is someone who works quickly, but without rushing, who provides reasonable estimates and meets commitments. A craftsman knows when to say no, but tries hard to say yes. A craftsman is a professional.