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Balance Quotes



"With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing."


"It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated."



"Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance."


"You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important."



"Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."


"We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us."


"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."


"There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves."


"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."


"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."


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


"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."



"In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique."


"Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established."


"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."


"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."



"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."


"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."


"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance."


"You have to accept all sides of yourself " there's no point fighting them " just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through."


"We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season."


"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali."


"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."


"I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance."


"In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object."


"Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high blood pressure, heart attacks and other such ailments. And those who believe it to be false, they became fat. Those living on both the shores, became lost wanderers. Although living the worldly life, 'we' are non-attached (vitaraag, the enlightened one)."



"It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other."


"I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth."


"The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget."
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