Balance Quotes - Page 26

• He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

  Owen Feltham

  Would Be, Needs, Apparel

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• Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

  Judith Kelman

  Writing, Self Confidence, Perfect

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• We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Community

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• What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.

  Christa Wolf

  Running, War, Mean

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• The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.

  Lauren Groff

  Jobs, Grace, Stories

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• What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Funny Things, Ideas, Knowing

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Enemy, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Political, Stupidity, Months

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Shifting, Individual

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Order, Discipline

  Source: productivemag.com

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• Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

  Howard Schultz

  Trying, Different, Way

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. December 14, 2005.

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• I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Source: www.ibtimes.com

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• When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

  James Franco

  Artist, Actors, Flip

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.

  Nina Berberova

  Writing, Sacrifice, Storm

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• to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Each Month, Records, Months

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Up a Family Tree”, Bantam Books

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• This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

  Craig Watts

  Hurt, Missing, Worst Times

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• As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

  Drew Barrymore

  Calm, Wanted

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• Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

  Claire Danes

  Negotiation, Constant

  "Glamour's January Cover Star Claire Danes on Why She's Happier in Her 30s" by Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

  Thomas Ian Griffith

  Art, Play, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

  Carre Otis

  Keys, One Direction, Found

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy.

  Robert Herjavec

  Guy, Meals, Dessert

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• As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christian, Strong, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

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• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.

  Donnie Yen

  Couple, Icons, Actors

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• Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Way, Arguing

  "Robert Pattinson on you know what". Press conference, www.bostonherald.com. November 17, 2011.

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