Balance Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

  Frank Herbert

  People

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• 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

  Heart, Destiny, Feet

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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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• Every move is a creation,
  Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation,
  The line is a creation,
  Survival is a creation,
  Freedom is a creation.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Moving, Survival, Lines

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• The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, War, World

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• ... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

  Ameen Rihani

  Thinking, Europe, Ideas

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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• The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

  Eric Voegelin

  Lying, Cosmos, Precarious

  Eric Voegelin, Michael Franz (2000). “Order and History”, p.123, University of Missouri Press

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• It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

  Sasha Grey

  Sex, Thinking, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.

  Philip Glass

  Real, Drama, Writing

  Interview with Bruce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

  Will Packer

  Sweet, Games, Names

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

  Kamala Harris

  Order, Two, Routine Work

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Pain, Writing, Thinking

  "Gbenga Akinnagbe talks Damages, Nurse Jackie and upcoming film projects". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. September 29, 2012.

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, World

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• Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathing, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Girl, Teenager, Groups

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.

  Joshua Bell

  Miracle, Littles, Violin

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• It's important to understand the work that's being done, and to make sure it's actually helping. And sometimes, by working on it myself, I get a better grasp of the challenges and complexities of the task, and I'm able to talk about it better. That's why a balance of actual work and awareness is good, because they feed each other.

  Regine Chassagne

  Challenges, Important, Done

  "Arcade Fire’s Band Aid for Haiti". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.

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• Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

  Trita Parsi

  Mistake, Mean, Iran

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up being completely different. But there are undoubtedly parts of the world that will benefit on balance from climate change. Those areas tend to be in the north, where it has been cold and uncomfortable in the past. But it's considered practically heretical to even raise such issues.

  Hans von Storch

  Past, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.

  Mary Schapiro

  Opportunity, Target, Protection

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• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  Viet D. Dinh

  Growth, Patents, Reform

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• To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

  Peter Tosh

  Running, Mind, Temples

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• Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.

  Wesley Pruden

  Military, Writing, Night

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