Quotes About Balance

I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.

Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.

Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.

Tension happens. It will continue to happen. If we didn't have tension, we wouldn't be alive. How we maintenance ourselves makes all the difference in how we live our lives.

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

I was a 23-year-old law student when I won the 'Great British Bake Off' in 2012. For 10 weeks I had balanced my degree finals with the tension and scrutiny inside the white tent (not to mention a few nights out here and there).

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

The relationship with China has become more important, not only in terms of economic cooperation but also for strategic cooperation for the peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue. That is why I am pursuing a balanced diplomacy with the U.S. as well as China.

It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance!

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.