Quotes About Moderation

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

lo bueno llevado al extremo se convierte en malo.

Extremists usually describe the middle course as extreme.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I am neither cheerful nor sad. But i can be completely the one or completely the other to excess.

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling.

My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.

enough is all that a person of wisdom needs.

A slice of cake never made anyone fat. You don't eat the whole cake. You don't eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that's safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what is served on the happiest days of your life.

Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety, moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

I don't want to work all of the time.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.