Balance Quotes - page 55

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. (Isabel Allende)
Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. View quote
Claire Danes
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. View quote
Steven Spielberg
In lectures, it is important that you lecture plain. We are interested in the smartest students, and we really should take care of those who have most difficulties with understanding certain concepts. I try to balance it. You know what? In lecturing, Jerzy Vetulani really helped me – listening to his lectures, I learned how to teach correctly, so that the students did not fall asleep after fifteen minutes. View quote
Jerzy Vetulani
If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance. View quote
Richard Hamming
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance. View quote
Richard Hamming
Agile development methodologies promise higher customer satisfaction, lower defect rates, faster development times and a solution to rapidly changing requirements. Plan-driven approaches promise predictability, stability, and high assurance. However, both approaches have shortcomings that, if left unaddressed, can lead to project failure. The challenge is to balance the two approaches to take advantage of their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. View quote
Barry Boehm
What we see in both software development and military operations is a tendency for the pendulum to swing back and forth between extremes. Yet in most cases, we need a balance between armor and discipline and between mobility and agility. Actually, though, I would say that the leaders in both the agile and plan-driven camps occupy various places in the responsible middle. It's only the over-enthusiastic followers who overinterpret "discipline” and "agility” to unhealthy degrees. View quote
Barry Boehm
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues. View quote
Ehud Olmert
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. View quote
Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. View quote
Albert Einstein
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment. View quote
Albert Einstein
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. View quote
David Brooks
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc. View quote
Jack Nicklaus
Look up! the proof is round you written large; Your Faith is in the balance wanting found; Your shipless seas confess it; bridgeless streams; Your wasted wealth of ore, and moor, and bay. Beneath the Upas shade of Faith depraved All things lie dead -- wealth, comfort, freedom, power. View quote
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. View quote
Richard Nixon
Men's immediate path from the Insanity Track to the Sanity Track is in demanding that both sexes have the freedom to strike a balance between homeplace and workplace. Men must expect their wives to financially support them to be fathers as much as they now financially support their wives to be mothers. Women must have our approval to marry the warrior of love rather than the warrior of money. View quote
Warren Farrell
The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems. View quote
Warren Farrell
In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of "relationship language” that nourishes the soul. (Warren Farrell)
If we want our children to have a balance between their abilities to earn money and show love, it will help if both their parents model that balance. View quote
Warren Farrell
It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance. View quote
Warren Farrell
In brief, part of the need for funding comes from the need to create balance to a third of a century of funding an "attitude” toward men. And part comes from the need to study how both sexes can make a transition from those rigid roles to more flexible roads with a clear enough road map to not go over too many cliffs along the way... View quote
Warren Farrell
If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. View quote
John F. Kennedy