Quotes About Balance

#1. It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.

George Tillman Jr.

#2. There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

David Maraniss

#3. Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#5. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#6. The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.

Paul Hawken

#7. never to ask a Lapp how many reindeer he had. Such a question, he said, would be as tactless as to ask an American how large a bank balance he carries.

Carveth Wells

#8. Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Clarence DeMar

#9. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.

Jesse Petersen

#10. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Scarlett Johansson

#11. A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

Doreen Virtue

#12. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

Greg Graffin

#13. Warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said,

Marya Hornbacher

#14. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.

Rory McCann

#15. We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Janet Fitch

#16. Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

K.P. Yohannan

#17. Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Victoria Osteen

#18. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Alain Prost

#21. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Toshihiko Fukui

#23. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Nia Long

#24. So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

Robert C. Solomon

#25. There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.

Diego Della Valle

#26. What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.

Rafael A. Calvo

#27. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

Vanessa Minnillo

#28. And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ...

Kate Morton

#29. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Gina Greenlee

#30. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!

Rick Yancey

#31. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.

Nikki Rowe

#32. I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Bonnie Raitt

#33. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#34. Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.

Mallika Chopra

#35. What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Wilbur Mills

#36. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Stefan Emunds

#37. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#38. By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential.

Ilchi Lee

#39. Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Caroline Knapp

#40. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#41. To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.

Caroline Myss

#42. An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours.

Kendell Foster Crossen

#43. Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#44. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.

Beau Taplin

#45. Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Aleister Crowley

#46. Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Christina Sunley

#47. I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.

Kara Hayward

#48. Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds ...

Paula Gunn Allen

#49. You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.

Melody Beattie

#50. My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.

Alice Callahan

#51. The essence of health is inner balance.

Andrew Weil

#52. NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

Peter Diamandis

#53. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.

Patricia Briggs

#54. I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

Kylie Minogue

#55. I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.

Aerin Lauder

#56. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

#57. It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,
but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.

Jasmine Jean

#58. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.

Frederick Lenz

#59. I have learned from nature that all is equal ... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

Joseph Raffael

#60. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#61. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

George Carlin

#62. I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence ... I think.

Laura Marling

#63. Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

William Vickrey

#64. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#65. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

Anthony Liccione

#66. I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

Kenny Chesney

#67. My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

Jewel

#68. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.

Nikolas Lee

#69. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#70. It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

Ted Cruz

#71. My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

Kim Kardashian

#72. Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Joan D. Vinge

#73. Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

Deepak Chopra

#74. Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

Wilma Mankiller

#75. Effective foreign policy has always involved the use of both sticks and carrots, and finding the right balance between the two is more art than science.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#76. Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

Rick Scott

#77. The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

Ana Ortiz

#78. So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

Charlie Hunnam

#79. In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

Bill Gates

#80. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Frank Herbert

#81. One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

#82. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

Salle Merrill Redfield

#83. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.

Carlos Wallace

#84. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

Katie Kacvinsky

#85. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#86. Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Robin Sharma

#87. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson

#88. Henry believed that Marbury was a world out of balance. He needs to take a closer look at this one.

Andrew Smith

#89. Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

Rajneesh

#90. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#91. In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

Sherilyn Fenn

#92. I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.

Nathan Sawaya

#93. Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other. You only discover balance in your life when you learn to trust the flow of this ancient rhythm.

John O'Donohue

#94. The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things ...

James A. Murphy

#95. Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

Robert Gottlieb

#96. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong

#97. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

David Suzuki

#98. I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Juan Cole

#99. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

Herbert Stein

#100. Power in Balance. Balance in Power.

V.E Schwab