Balancing Act Quotes

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Positive, Places You Go

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Inspiring, Encouragement

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

  Dr. Seuss

  Feet, Bird, Places You Go

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• The balancing act is challenging at times.

  Jeremy Jones

  Challenges

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• It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking.

  Peter Reinhart

  Art, Baking, Ingredients

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• Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Order, Balance, Extremes

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

  Karrin Allyson

  Music, Self, Creative

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

  Michael Sheen

  Children, Thinking, Hands

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

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• Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

  George L. Carlson

  Art, Greatness, Emotional

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

  Garry Kasparov

  Technology, Russia, West

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.

  DJ Spooky

  Creating, Environmental, Chemicals

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• And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Yes You Can, Happy Birthday Inspirational

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Steps, Happy Birthday Inspirational

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Would Be, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, 'I accept that I have diabetes, and I'm not going to let it run my entire life.' It's a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.

  Bret Michaels

  Running, Blood, Wake Up

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• What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

  Judith Warner

  Mother, Choices, Identity

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• I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Fun, Sun

  Dr. Seuss, Carlos Rivera (1967). “El gato ensombrerado”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Momentum, Virtue, Dare

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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