Alva Noto Quotes

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Life mixes tones all the time.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.