Balance Quotes

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

I use a lot of balance training and functional training. Basically it's where you add an element of instability to a regular exercise. So whether it's on the physioball or the Bosu ball or just balancing on one leg, I try to incorporate an instable plane and/or movement to the exercise, so the body's doing two or more movements.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.

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

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

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.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

I am a Libra so I have to balance things.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

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.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

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.

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there.

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.

The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

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

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?