Balance Quotes - Page 38

• I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

  Mary Wigman

  Emotional, Self, Law

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• A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Sheets, Unspoken

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• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Careers, Twenties

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• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

  Terence McKenna

  Effort, Way, States

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• I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world - it would be as dust in the balance.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Blessed, Dust, Giving

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• Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Optimistic, Men

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Toxic, Rising

  "Climate of Hate". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2011.

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• If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

  Mencius

  Running, Thinking, Mind

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• We diversify in two ways. First, we probably trade more markets worldwide than any other money manager. Second, we don't just use a single best system. To provide balance, we use lots of different systems ranging from short to long term. Some of these systems may not be that good by themselves, but we really don't care; that is not what they are there for.

  Larry Hite

  Two, Long, Different

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• If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Character, Trying, Impossible

  Source: collider.com

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• We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Husband, Artist, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

  Mick Garris

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I always feel like every film takes the franchise and hangs it in the balance.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Film, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

  William C. Brown

  Broken, Lasts, Eating

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• The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Mistake, Angel

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, "Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good." Hopefully it balances out.

  Demetri Martin

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

  Jenson Button

  Moving, Race, Car

  Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Europe, Community

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Attitude, Reality, Photographer

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• The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

  Demetri Martin

  Keys, Ledges, Life Is

  Twitter post from May 10, 2011

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• If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

  Greg Giraldo

  Issues, Trying, Watches

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 30, 2004.

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• Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, Government, People

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.

  James Van Der Zee

  Jobs, Cameras, Looks

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