Balancing Act Quotes

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Positive, Places You Go

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Inspiring, Encouragement

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

  Dr. Seuss

  Feet, Bird, Places You Go

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• The balancing act is challenging at times.

  Jeremy Jones

  Challenges

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• It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking.

  Peter Reinhart

  Art, Baking, Ingredients

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• Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Order, Balance, Extremes

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

  Karrin Allyson

  Music, Self, Creative

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

  Michael Sheen

  Children, Thinking, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

  George L. Carlson

  Art, Greatness, Emotional

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.

  DJ Spooky

  Creating, Environmental, Chemicals

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• Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

  Garry Kasparov

  Technology, Russia, West

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Yes You Can, Happy Birthday Inspirational

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Steps, Happy Birthday Inspirational

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Would Be, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

  Shane Koyczan

  Pain, Our Lives

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Fun, Ideas

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Momentum, Virtue, Dare

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Stage Performance, Style, Different

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Maturity

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