Balancing Quotes

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I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

- Marilyn Manson

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don`t know if I would wish for world peace.

- Brendan Fraser

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

- Kelly Preston

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

- Sarah Polley

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

- Gavin Newsom

I`d love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it`s a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

- Roma Downey

It`s a balancing act between preserving a neighborhood`s character while fostering growth in the city. Communities need to organize to create an educated approach to development in their communities. And for developers, I hope this will challenge them to ... strive for better quality while listening to the community.

- Christopher Jones

On her role Kate in My Sister`s Keeper (2009): There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it`s shameful. Shaving my head was the least I could do for Kate to experience the degree of her isolation and outcast from a `normal` healthy life. It is like balancing between two realities

- Sofia Vassilieva

I love the word `juxtapose,` ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beautiful. Life is not all black and white -- it`s shaded.

- Charlie Sexton

There`s a balancing act between efficient vegetation management along the right-of-way and community standards for the character of the roadway.

- Michael Donovan

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer`s life with the writing. I think that`s something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

It`s a balancing act. We don`t want to treat them like criminals after they have been traumatized, but we want to make sure they are in no danger nor the families they are housed with.

- Kyle Smith

I have been busy my whole life and I learned at a young age time management when balancing sports and school.

- Shantelle Taylor

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

- Alan Barton

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

- Alex Hunter

I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

- Amanda Clark

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

- Amanda Sluss

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

- Andrew Schepers

Dietary modifications that result in reduced ammonia emissions should be considered best management practices. Those practices include adequately balancing diets, feeding highly digestible feedstuffs and preserving feeds adequately.

- Anna Madorsky

It`s a question of balancing risks and benefit of surgery.

- Antonio DiMaria

(The choice between social life and the uphill struggle for grades can be a hard one.) Balancing school and social life was the hardest for me in my second year, ... You don`t have the ready access to people that you had in the dorm; if you want the homework for last night, you now have to call someone rather than knock on their door.

- Arnika Brown

It`s a recognition of women who are still breaking boundaries. There`s a lot more of a balancing act for women to succeed. They`ve really gone out of their way to help other women get there as well.

- Arthur Phillip

The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.

- Asep Firmansyah

It`s a new age, ... `Creativity` is the word in balancing your personal and work life.

- B. J. Wie

It`s kind of a balancing act.

- Bangkok Post

All year, there has been evidence of a two-speed UK economy with house prices, consumer spending and low unemployment balancing a stuttering manufacturing sector, sub-target inflation and weak international economies.

- Barbara Jensen

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

- E. F. Schumacher