“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.” ThinkingMindLife IsForceRealizingFiguresFlowerBuddhismBalanceBunchPretty PictureFlower Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.” GivingTryingWholePracticeFiguresBuddhismBalanceGiving UpNot Giving UpJust Give Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .” WantHandsWorryFiguresBuddhismBalanceTrust Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.” HumansWellsLooksValuesSacrificeFiguresBalancePaperBudgetsHuman LifeSheetsBourgeoisAccountingBalance Sheets Author:Simone Weil
“I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.” FeelsTryingProcessFansFiguresBalanceDignityFeel GoodMaintaining Author:Trent Reznor
“I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.” ThinkingTryingDoeSometimesHappensAudienceFiguresBalanceAskingImaginaryCarried Away Author:David Byrne
“Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.” PeopleWritingWellsSelfShowsValuesStuffSidesOpinionFiguresBalanceResponseCriticalDislikeFacility Author:Alex Garland
“It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.” IfsSometimesWholeHappensLosesFiguresDesignFineBalanceWindowRuinsCanvasStrokesExitPrecisionCordsFudgeUmbilical CordRectangles Author:James Nares
“Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.” WantFiguresBalanceToughProducersDisappoint Author:Ryuhei Kitamura
“One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.” TryingFilmFightingThreeHoursChallengesHalfAudienceFiguresBalanceGunBoredOverwhelmedHalf HoursAssembling Author:Peter Berg
“Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.” IfsCitiesGoneFiguresBalanceExcitedSuspectsBoresSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Anne Robinson
“It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so that Miles Morales at the moment is the more traditional Spider-Man figure in the universe: the high school student trying to balance high school and superheroics, and he can't catch a break. That was Peter's role, but it's not his role anymore, and it's Miles' role. That was given to me, and it's pretty cool.” MenTryingMomentsHelpingSchoolUniverseGivenRolesBreakFiguresStudentsBalanceHigh SchoolMilesTraditionalPeterSpidersMoraleSpider ManHigh School StudentsPeter Parker Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.” WorldGivingTryingWellsUseLightOrderActorsGrowing UpIssuesGrowingFiguresBalanceHappeningsShiningI RealizedPlatformsGiving BackSpotlight Author:Serinda Swan
“You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history.” ThinkingTodayEffortSuccessfulFiguresBalanceBeing SuccessfulComment Author:Hillary Clinton
“Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.” WantTryingWellsWantedAmericaRememberEconomySawsFiguresBalanceReactionsGet BackExcessTeddy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.” ThinkingWayWantYearsNextCasesWrittenFiguresBalanceHolyStandardsLogicAgreeReportsSheetsSectionsWant UExplainingNext YearAnnualsShareholdersBalance SheetsAnnual Reports Author:Warren Buffett
“We need to upgrade and modernize America`s infrastructure.Our budget is going to have to figure out how to balance those priorities and pay for it and our big goal is to leverage the private sector dollars as much as possible so that the public taxpayer isn`t paying for all of this.” NeedsBigsAmericaGoalPayFiguresBalanceDollarsPrioritiesBudgetsInfrastructureTaxpayersPrivate Sector Author:Paul Ryan
“People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?” PeopleKnowsKindMeanDoeIdeasMovingCertainValuesPerfectNumbersStudyFiguresHumilityBalancePeriodsJudgmentOkayBotherChairsOptimumPerfect BalanceStravinsky Author:Charles Koch
“If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.” IfsFeelsFilmCareersFiguresBalanceFrightened Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.” TryingKindLittlesHas BeensJobsDealsFiguresBalanceEasierBusyNightmare Author:Susan Sarandon