Achieving Balance Quotes

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Life is not a success only journey.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

Control success before it controls you.

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

I've built my career around my life instead of being consumed by the fame monster.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

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.

I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.

I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.