Top 100 Quotes About Balancing
#1. The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.
Frank Herbert
#2. Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
John Maynard Keynes
#3. 'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly ... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
Leigh-Allyn Baker
#4. He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.
Robert B. Parker
#5. ...he thought she was going to say those three words, and his stomach did two back flips and a somersault while balancing on a high wire.
Bart Hopkins
#6. He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders.
Howard Jacobson
#7. I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.
Bethany Hamilton
#8. It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.
Jim Gaffigan
#9. Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
Richard Louv
#10. It seemed not only as though they had everything figured out but were balancing it in their palms as well. The world was borrowing its time from them in order for anything outside of their lives to take place.
Daniel Kine
#11. There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
Charles Kennedy
#12. The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.
Walter Lippmann
#13. Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
Sheena Iyengar
#14. Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.
Lukas Haas
#15. From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat.
Michael Mina
#16. The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.
Bryant McGill
#17. Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it.
Lynn Hill
#18. Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.
Jude Wanniski
#19. We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.
Don Bradley
#20. As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.
Kym Whitley
#22. The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.
DJ Spooky
#23. I believe that whenever someone you love dies, a part of you goes with them. I also think that every time someone new is brought into your life, a part of you is reborn. The circle of life and death is a balancing act, God's way of making things even.
Dani Amore
#24. Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
Biz Stone
#25. You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
Kim Gordon
#26. I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.
Dave Heineman
#27. The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.
Quentin Tarantino
#29. It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking.
Peter Reinhart
#30. The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#31. It's all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.
Helen M. Ryan
#32. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.
Charles Emmerson
#33. Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.
Santosh Kalwar
#34. My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.
Jewel
#35. He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.
Mary Renault
#36. I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
Norah O'Donnell
#37. I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#38. My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.
Monica Denise Brown
#39. History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
Stephen Spender
#40. What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#41. Health isn't about being "perfect" with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It's about nourishing your spirit as well as your body.
Golda Poretsky
#42. The balancing act is challenging at times.
Jeremy Jones
#43. The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my text - which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.
George Eliot
#44. Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.
Charles R. Swindoll
#45. That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales ...
Tony Kushner
#47. Mother is the reflective principle,
the balancing agent for the child.
Like a guru, she allows the child to
make mistakes and loves the child
without condition. Like nature,
she allows consequences to unfold
and balance to be restored when
it is lost.
Vimala McClure
#48. History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
Helen Foster Snow
#49. I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.
Michael Sheen
#50. Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.
Connie Kerbs
#51. We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu
#52. As a result, in more than three dimensions the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with its internal pressure balancing the pull of gravity. It would either fall apart or collapse to form a black hole, either of which could ruin your day.
Stephen Hawking
#53. Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#54. If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.
Rand Paul
#55. Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Susanna Kearsley
#56. The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just
not the balancing of benefits.
Carl Cohen
#57. Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.
Takashi Miike
#58. That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.
Chad Pennington
#59. The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
Andre Holland
#60. Danger cups us under its hand, and we can do nothing but stand witness to the turning of the world. Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.
Robin Hobb
#61. The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.
John L. Lewis
#62. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
Joseph J. Ellis
#63. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.
Andy Richter
#64. I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.
Prince William
#65. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.
Mike Pence
#66. Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.
Ricardo Semler
#67. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.
Ilchi Lee
#68. Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.
David Hawkins
#69. As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
Yelena Baturina
#70. Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
Phil Gramm
#71. Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
Ronald Reagan
#72. She's the bridge between the doctors and the people, and you can see the strain of balancing between those two worlds.
Gayle Forman
#73. Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
Brendan Fraser
#74. Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
Julien Smith
#75. Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
George L. Carlson
#76. As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.
Jennifer Nettles
#77. Purpose, meaning, significance - these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.
Gary Keller
#78. Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#79. Life is a constant balancing act, and keeping your balance is not always possible. The better you prepare yourself, the better your chances of regaining your balance when you lose it.
Walter C. Conner
#80. Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
Aimee Bender
#81. We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald Reagan
#82. Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Erwin Blumenfeld
#83. Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
Jody Watley
#84. Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.
Brandy Norwood
#85. Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.
Inge Morath
#86. I keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away
Conor Oberst
#87. I think that ... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
Jim Rash
#88. Brandon is your boyfriend, right. You keep saying 'Brandon is my boyfriend,'" he moved his fingers in quote marks, "and it makes as much sense as 'I am balancing the planet Pluto on my big toe' or 'Kumquats make the best nuclear physicists.
Jennifer Echols
#89. Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Michael Crapo
#90. Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.
Paul Tonko
#91. In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.
Anna Faris
#92. My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.
Condola Rashad
#93. When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.
Dean Koontz
#94. I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize.
Neal H. Moritz
#95. A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.
Bette Greene
#96. At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
Nancy Gibbs
#97. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E.F. Schumacher
#98. The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
Charles Derber
#99. Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.
Karrin Allyson
#100. The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines - a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
