Juggling Quotes

• Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

  Ronald Graham

  Art, Space, Patterns

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Fun, Deep Thought, Balls

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• The world cannot be governed without juggling.

  John Selden

  Leadership, World, Manipulation

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.69

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• Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

  Gary W. Keller

  Reality, Tasks, Balls

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• There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

  Lawrence Welk

  Funny Life, Good Day, Bad Day

  "Emmy, Vol. 9", published by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 1987.

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• You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

  Carol Bartz

  Balance, Needs, Able

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• My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

  Michael Jackson

  Responsibility, Life Is, Complicated

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• 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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• Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Integrity, Glasses

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• Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Tears, Genius, Irritated

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

  Lord Byron

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Smooth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

  Penn Jillette

  Black And White, People, Straightforward

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

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• Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mirrors, Mind, Torches

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

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• All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

  Jojo Moyes

  Ideas, People, Daft

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

  Amy Grant

  Journey, Air, Facts

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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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• You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.

  Brian Dyson

  Glasses, Balls, Four

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

  Kirstie Alley

  Balls, Gone, Bowling

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

  Running, Kids, Men

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• The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Inspirational, Motivational, Keys

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

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