“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.” LawDesirePerfectLibertyBalanceFaultsSaintNeighborDeniedStrictStrict Laws Author:Thomas a Kempis
“A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.” PeopleNeedsDesirePassionLeaderPlayerTeamFootballBalanceWillingnessMixturesFootball TeamGood LeaderTechniciansKeep LearningCommunicatorsGreat FootballAstute Author:Hope Powell
“The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.” WorldTryingDoeDesireOpinionIssuesHappenedEventsBalanceIllusionIraqRegionsAfghanistanLibyaBalance Of PowerCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.” CareDesireLostBalanceHonorDestructionInsaneSanityAptitude Author:David Weber
“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.” YearsFirstsChildrenMotherDesireValuesQualityStudyBalanceIndependenceListsObedienceFiftyConformityStrictAutonomySurveysIndiana Author:Richard Louv
“To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.” SpiritDesireBalanceFortuneSecure Author:Jeremy Taylor
“Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.” LawDesireMoralBalanceRewardsSatisfactionPunishmentRestraintProposeCurbBreachMoral LawReward And Punishment Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow.” IfsHas BeensPlayDesireHumanityOpportunityGrowsUnderstandingChallengesPerfectLaughingCryBecomingBalanceBurdenShouldersOpportunities To LearnPerfect Balance Author:Bryan Kest
“I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayTryingBelieveUsedDesireForceI BelieveActingMilitaryBalanceLosingOperationsMilitary ForceRedressBalance Of Power Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves - emotional DNA or what I call Small Data - which are able to describe with an insane accuracy who we really are, our personalities and desires. But even more how we all represents out of balances - perhaps I feel too overweight, feel alone or feel I haven't achieved what I'd hoped for when hitting 40. These imbalances are surprisingly visible when visiting consumers' homes - and surprisingly invisible when relaying on Big Data.” FeelsFactsHomeBigsAbleDesireBehindsHavensEmotionalPersonalityBalanceInvisibleInsaneDataConsumersVisibleHittingClueDnaInsignificantAccuracyVisitingOverweightImbalance Author:Martin Lindstrom
“There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the government has to sort of do something or the Federal Reserve, the Fed, or the Central Bank, or whatever, it has to intervene. It has to create enough investment for the economy not to suffer from a fall in aggregate demand. So, if you don't have a balance within the market system itself, then you need an external balance and that's what I think Keynes believed.” ThinkingEnoughDesireSufferingFallEconomyBalanceInvestmentReconcileFederal ReserveKeynes Author:Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
“So many women now in China are entering the workforce and also taking up very important positions CEOs, for example. The problem for many such women now is how to balance all the different kind of responsibilities that they take on and that they want to take up. They have to balance family and work and maybe kids. Chinese woman really have a strong desire to do that. They want to grab a hold of all these things. They are willing and able. But there is the challenge of how to keep the balance.” KindImportantDifferentProblemKidsDesireStrongChallengesResponsibilityBalanceChineseDifferent KindsCeo Author:Gong Li
“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.” MindHumansDesirePassionHuman BeingsOughtBalancePerfectionCalmPeacefulPreservesTranquilityTransitoryPeaceful Mind Book:Frankenstein Source: Frankenstein
“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsMeanHomeDreamLightSeemsRunningDesireNightForcePrinciplesBalanceEqualPicksEuropeOppositesTrainIntenseMysteriousPushingDaily LifeGrayWetAirportsCatchingLureStay At HomeShuttersFlorence Author:Frances Mayes