Balance Quotes

If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly and the innovation you will get will be very incrementalist. Nobody's going to try anything bold for fear of getting fired or punished in some way. The risk/reward must be balanced, in favor of making bold moves.

Most people like working, but they'd also like to have more time with their family or to pursue their own interests.

I think it definitely helps to be really focused on what you are doing. You can only work so many hours, and I try to have some balance in my life and so on. I think a lot of people go through this in school.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable.

I want to do what has not been done in 24 years: balance the federal budget - we're going to balance it.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the [doomsday] budget.

I don't believe in work-life balance. I believe in work-life integration. Make your work and life meaningful and fulfilling, and they will complement each other.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs - balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage - balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future.

Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.

There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature's balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side. Such public necessities, therefore, must not be destroyed because there is profit for someone in their destruction.

A forest is not solely so many thousand board feet of lumber to be logged when market conditions make it profitable. It is an integral part of our natural land covering, and the most potent factor in maintaining Nature's delicate balance in the organic and inorganic worlds.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

No President can be great, or even fit for office, if he attempts to accommodate to injustice to maintain his political balance.

He toes that line so well, where he's able to make something compelling and profound and smart that's also so on the verge of making people hate him.