Quotes About Balance

Practically speaking, it was like carrying a Labrador retriever over a tightrope and having a squirrel race past.

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

Since I've been spending my time in nature with animals, I found out that we are the wild savages, and they are the ones who are actually civilized.

Creo que madurar no significa ser una persona seria, mucho menos aburrida, madurar es poder jugar, tontear, bromear, hacer sonreír como un niño, pero recordando nuestras responsabilidades, aceptar que ya no somos niños, pero sin olvidar que lo fuimos.

work. play. passion.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

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.

For this pitiful kill leopard would have to pay with his life

The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

art"? Simply stated, give control away when you don't need it, so you can get some back when you do!

The boundaries we set for our children are in reality the boundaries we set for ourselves. The more squishy and indecisive we are about our own boundaries, the more soggy and inconsistent we are about the limits we set for our toddlers.

Limits can be set much more effectively when we're not fighting with our kids.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, And neither party loser." (William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two, Act IV, Scene 2, from the journals of May Dodd)

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Love at Work Is a Lot of Work!

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.