Quotes About Balance

There certainly are some drawbacks to belonging to a busy man no matter how fine he may be as I believe you have sometimes found out.48

Please ask for payments as needed from time to time, not all at once.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

As at Standard Oil, Rockefeller insisted upon keeping a cash balance that never dipped below $10 million.

The idea was not to compete, at least not too openly.

Many times, it would be impossible to appease both the United States and Britain.

It took Rockefeller time to shed his obsessive concern for Standard Oil and allow himself to be lulled by the restful sea spirit.

Having missed a carefree boyhood, he seemed to want to compensate in his later years

The Rockefellers were more interested in exercise, which stressed health, than in sports, which stressed pleasure.

To explain his extraordinary longevity, he later said, doubtless overstating the matter, "I'm here because I shirked: did less work, lived more in the open air, enjoyed the open air, sunshine and exercise.

By his mid-thirties, he had installed a telegraph wire between home and office so that he could spend three or four afternoons each week at home, planting trees, gardening, and enjoying the sunshine.

It is remarkable how much we all could do if we avoid hustling, and go along at an even pace and keep from attempting too much.

the power balance has tilted dramatically away from the bankers.

but he is kept in check by the Drexels.

As philosopher Herbert Spencer once said, "A business partnership, balanced as the authorities of its members may theoretically be, presently becomes a union in which the authority of one partner is tacitly recognized as greater than that of the other or others."16

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

Via com bastante clareza que mais liberdade podia conduzir a uma maior desordem e, por uma dialética perigosa, de volta à perda da liberdade.

Everything around us, including the delicate balance in nature that makes life on Earth possible, makes it clear: Our world didn't "just happen." Our world was designed, and even today Earth is guided and protected by God.

It is as if Earth were purposely hung in space, at just the right distance from the Sun, and provided with just the right amount of every element needed for life to exist.

Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - ima?ahu jedan mudar zajedni?ki obi?aj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvaput; i to - jednom kad su pijani, a drugi put u treznom stanju;- Pijani - da im savetovanje ne bude lišeno snage i odvažnosti;- atrezni - da ne bude lišeno razboritosti i opreznosti.

Some people carry this philosophy too far. They look at the damage mankind does to the natural world, and they forget that humans are animals as well, and also deserving of reverence.

Adult friendship doesn't grant you an exclusive, isn't meant to be ranked above romance and family.

The best fights are the ones you don't have

Most right-handed people end up walking wide counterclockwise circles, because most right-handed people have left legs fractionally shorter than their right legs. Basic biology and geometry. I avoided that particular peril by stepping to the right of every tenth tree I came to, whether I thought I needed to or not.