“The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.” ShouldReasonForceGreaterConditionsMilitaryBalanceEssentialsAimStrategyOneselfUsualDrainsAdopting Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.” WayNeedsMindHappensActionLostConditionsBalanceMindfulnessConfusionClarityEaseInternalsConcentration Book:Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life Source: Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.” LooksChildrenCareCoursesExistenceSituationConditionsBalanceAdoptedAdaptationMixturesMotorAssimilationEfficacySchemas Author:Jean Piaget
“What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.” MenWorldThreeAirConditionsThis WorldBalanceIronEggsSummitStaticPoise Author:Jack Vance
“Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.” WritingWellsUseWould BePurposeNamesLostMorningForeverImagineMinutesConditionsBalanceDrawsAdvantageAccountsCreditPortionsCentsEvery Morning Author:Ann Landers
“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.” ThinkingImportantIdeasSocialJusticeAbilityCitiesVisionConditionsBalanceResourcesSocial JusticeFundamentalsAvailableStreamsSustainabilityCitizenshipEquityUtopian Author:William J. Mitchell
“Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.” NeedsUniverseConditionsFineBalanceContraryBeing TrueStringsPrintTruestQualificationsFootnotesToo Good To Be TrueStrings AttachedFine PrintNo Strings Attached Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.” KnowsHumansMayWholeWould BeSocialProcessNaturalSimpleEnvironmentConditionsDependsBalanceBehaviorSurvivalComplexesEnvironmentalSustainabilityInvestigationGlobesImprovingHuman BehaviorDesirableFillingPrescriptionsGreenhousesSocial SystemsGreenhouse GasesSnailNileDeteriorating Author:Gilbert F. White
“Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.” WayCountryTechnologyDoubtConditionsMankindBalanceConsequenceDestructionEnvironmentalDareDisasterWeatherOur CountryAgentsNo DoubtRemarkableDelicateArrogantSevereBeneficialStewardshipDisregard Author:Prince Charles
“If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.” IfsMenFirstsLittlesPersonsDifferentHelpingWould BeAsksWorkPrayerPoorLordConditionsPrayingBalanceComfortHungerHungryAshamedBagsSugarOur PrayersBeefPorkFlourHelp The PoorLittle Bee Author:John Taylor
“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.” WellsImportantReasonGovernmentOrderAbilityDealsAchieveConditionsBalanceTasksFavorsWell BeingCivilizedCivilized SocietyWartime Author:William Rehnquist
“Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.” WorldWritingBelieveDifferentConditionsBalanceResearchSentencesThese Days Book:After the Fact Source: After the Fact
“It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than we've ever had before. Giving up our data seems a small price to pay, especially if, as you say, we don't feel we have anything to hide.” IfsGivingFeelsSeemsIndividualSocialPayConditionsBalanceGiving UpAccessDataSubjective Author:Astra Taylor
“I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job.” IfsThinkingKnowsStillsI CanJobsStarsSleepActingConditionsBalanceFunctionTendenciesGood JobCrave Author:Laura Regan
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” MenHumansSocialEducationConditionsBalanceWheelsDevicesMachineryEducatorEducation SystemGood TeacherPublic EducationGreat EducationBest EducationGood TeachingEqualizerEducation For AllEducation In AmericaBoard Of EducationSecondary Education Book:Annual Reports on Education Source: Annual Reports on Education
“The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.” MenHumansSoulCultureConditionsBalanceMen And WomenEvery ManHuman ConditionMisogynyImbalanceStrong Female CharactersEquality Of ManPro Feminist Author:Joss Whedon