Balance Quotes - Page 20

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

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.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.