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Top Quotes About Balance
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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