Quotes About Balance

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I work differently. I enjoy creating a space around me and not getting too high or too low. But I am continuously looking to get better - not just as a tennis player but also as a person dealing with new experiences.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Football should be tense, fair and attractive.

Tension is the great integrity.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write.

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.