Balance Quotes - Page 16

• It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Compassion, Practice

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strings Attached, Needs, Too Good To Be True

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

  Michael Mina

  Taste

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• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  Yanni

  Hours, Hundred, Miles

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• The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

  Trudi Canavan

  Ends, Lows, Magician

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  Leonard Susskind

  Technology, Men, Rocks

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• Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.

  Lolo Jones

  Eight, Three, Bars

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• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Goal, Mind

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Novelists, Thumbs, Morality

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

  Juanes

  Work Family, Parts Of Life, Personal Life

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• When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

  Ariel Gore

  Skills, Challenges, Pulse

  Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

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• When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

  Tom Freston

  Girlfriend, Moving, Loss

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• If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

  Wallace Stegner

  Exercise, Forever, Needs

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.17, Penguin

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• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Demand

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• All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Future, Past, Sheets

  Nicolas Darvas (2006). “How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits”, p.98, Harriman House Limited

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• Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

  Julian Assange

  Incentives, Bitcoin, Starting

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• Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Keys, Maintaining, Spirituality

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• I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

  Sadie Jones

  Mind, Letters, Bills

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• I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Mom, Wife, Wish

  "Angela Ahrendts: The Burberry CEO who reinvented a heritage brand for the digital age" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Special

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Engineering, Computer

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• If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Strong, Law

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Skills, Challenges, Rewards

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• My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

  Donald Bren

  Unique, Two, Orange

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