Top 1200 Delicate Balance Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

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

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

I have really tried to create a balance between my home life and my career.

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

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.

Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

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

Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.

There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

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

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

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

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

Good balance makes you a better dancer, musician, actor - anything.

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

I also know for a fact of at least two other ascents of the Delicate Arch. But when 'Outside' did their research, the other two climbers wouldn't admit to it, and I admit to it because I don't see anything wrong with a man climbing a rock.

People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?

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

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)

She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.