Balancing Act Quotes

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

I will always try to be as normal as I can. Obviously, there may have to be some limits with it, but I am still a fan at heart and want to live like a normal person.

How you balance class and school and other stuff outside, then working out twice a day - as a freshman, you're thrown right into that. It's good for you. It makes you go through adversity.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

What makes someone too mentally ill to be executed? There is no clean answer to this question. But the attempt to answer it consumes substantial resources. If capital punishment had a demonstrable impact on crime, it might make sense to struggle with such a difficult balancing. But any deterrent effect is trivial at best, so the effort devoted to these decisions is wasted.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.