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Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.
Richard G. Scott
Balance Giants Leaders Missionaries Spirit Work
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.
Henry R. Luce
Balance Men Poetry
Balance is overrated.
Thomas Leonard
Balance
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.
Howard Dean
Balance Conservative Money President Republican Republicans Right Trust Years
They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
Merle Haggard
Balance
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
Leonard Woodcock
American Balance Cities Difference First Living Spring Statistics
The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
Henry Knox
Balance Congress states Welfare
I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
Thurston Moore
Balance Experience
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx
Balance Brevity Play Word Work
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.
John Forsythe
Balance Life Love Now Work
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
Alain Prost
Balance
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
Balance Light Spirit Tears
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
Alia Shawkat
Balance Reality Words
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.
Melissa Bean
Balance Now Rules
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Lynn Swann
Balance Ballet Body Control Dance Jazz Sense Years
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Evangelista Torricelli
Balance Infinite Intellect Privilege World
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.
Norman McLaren
Art Balance Contrast Sensitivity Unity Work
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want – the want of money.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Balance Money Want
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
Jason Statham
Balance Fight Training
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Lord Chandos
Agreement Balance Business Reputation Spirit
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.
Earl Blumenauer
Balance Community Country Gentleman Planning Pressure Result
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.
Jane Rule
Balance Content Day Life Measure Success
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
Chris Christie
Action Balance Complaining Day End State Statesmanship Today
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
Charlie Hunnam
Balance Career Hope Longevity Press Work
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.
Cliff Stearns
Act Balance Harm Right Technology Time
I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.
Chris Squire
Balance People
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash
Balance Communication Fight Fire Free speech Question Respect World
I don’t personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
Carter Burwell
Balance Being Light Work
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
Ralph Merkle
Balance Environment Revolution Will
I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.
John Romero
Balance Environment Extreme People Right Weapons
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
Tiger Woods
Balance Importance Life Spiritual Therapy
I want balance in my life.
Ron Dellums
Balance Life Want
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.
Jimmy Carter
Balance President Press
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
Michael Pollan
Balance Power
They don’t bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.
Maurice Gibb
Balance
It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Mary Archer
Balance Fact Reading
Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant – I don’t know if that’s the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
Sally Schneider
Balance Health Right Word
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.
John Locke
Balance Man
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
Balance Books Heart Listening Money Pretty
Jimmy says he’ll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to – to balance the family ticket.
Lillian Gordy Carter
Balance Family Lie Time
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.
Sherwood Boehlert
Balance Growth Oil Problems Trade
The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I’m going back to Virginia.
Schuyler Fisk
Balance Fantasy Forget Reality
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
Michael Pollan
Balance Power
But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We’ve got a great infrastructure. And yes it’s struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.
Jim Cantalupo
Balance
For the most part I’ll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.
Shannon Miller
Balance Exercise
In today’s society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff
Balance Forget Reason Society Today
I love what I do for a living, it’s the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don’t truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I’m always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks
Attention Balance Job Living Love Trying World
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
Balance Banks Business Consequences Financial Gambling Investment Years
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Art Balance Dream Fatigue Influence Mind Purity Relaxation Serenity
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
Art Balance Dream Life May
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