Balance Quotes

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.