Quotes About Balance

the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy—responsibility without control.

the opposite of play is not work—it's depression.

If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

They're in control of the situation; -They're in control of themselves (men); and -They're in control of them (women).

Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben.

He felt himself, in a way, torn between two worlds: a solid, bourgeois world where ultimately everything was ordered and rational, as he was accustomed to from home, and an untrammelled one full of darkness, blood, and undreamt-of surprises.

Everything we feel and do is somehow oriented lifeward, and the least deviation away from this direction toward something beyond is difficult or alarming. This is true even of the simple act of walking: one lifts one's center of gravity, pushes it forward, and lets it drop again - and the slightest change, the merest hint of shrinking from this letting-oneself-drop-into-the-future, or even stopping to wonder at it - and one can no longer stand upright!

Fai bene quanto puoi e male quanto devi, sempre consapevole del margine d'errore del tuo fare

Versuch, das Erlebnis zu halten, zu fixieren, schlägt fehl. Die Absolutheit ist nicht zu bewahren. Ich schliesse daran, die Welt kann nicht ohne Böse bestehen, es bringt Bewegung in die Welt. Das Gute allein bewirkt Starre.

We don't have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

Tra gli uomini, i freddi calcolatori non hanno nella vita nemmeno la metà del successo dei temperamenti equilibrati, che provano davvero un profondo attaccamento per le persone e le relazioni che recano loro vantaggio

Ein Mann, der die Wahrheit will, wird Gelehrter; ein Mann, der seine Subjektivität spielen lassen will, wird vielleicht Schriftsteller; was aber soll ein Mann tun, der etwas will, das dazwischen liegt?

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, I said. The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

How can I love all this so much and be insane?

even what seems stable and true skids upon a razor balanced upon another razor perched upon the thinnest, keenest slice of luck.

Throughout this book, we've referred to the balance between the benefits and dark sides of the Age of Context. Perhaps the most complex, controversial and sometimes volatile dark side is the issue of user privacy.

The world is going crazy, Karl. And hen the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay.

What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive.

If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be focused, not balanced.

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere.