Balance Quotes - Page 33

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Kids, Hard Work, Giving

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• Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mistake, Want, Satisfaction

  Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

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• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  Imran Khan

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Colonialism

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Debt

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  Paul Kane

  Eye, Challenges, Matter

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• New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Movement, Circus

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Punishment, Desire

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Liberty, Acquisition

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

  John Adams

  Real, Government, Liberty

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.377

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• I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun balance of, you know, trying to keep it light and, you know, light-hearted and put in the comedy while trying to make it into drama.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Fun, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Differences, Making A Difference, Financial

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.

  Topher Grace

  Drama, Hate, Nice

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Energy

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And again, I'm not going, "I've got to become a dramatic actor now." I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different.

  Patton Oswalt

  Jobs, Interesting, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Forgiveness, Dust, Blood

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.45

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• 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

  Media, Negative, Attention

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.

  Erin Davie

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sex, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

  Don DeLillo

  Real, Thinking, Confusion

  "DeLillo's Novel Look at Oswald: Rescuing History From Confusion". Interview with Elizabeth Mehren, perival.com. August 12, 1988.

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

  Alan Lightman

  Character, Giving, Fiction

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Player, Judging, Orchestra

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

  April Greiman

  Order, Layers, Fans

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• ...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Trying, Treasure

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• 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

  Attitude, Reflection, Men

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