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“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.”

Art Philosophy Helping Deals Issues Meditation Balance Intention Chess Internals Martial Arts Competing Tao Embodiment Tao Te Ching Tai Chi

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.”

People Shows Wise Balance Intention Willpower Not Happy Monasteries Very Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.”

Difficult Buddhism Balance Intention Difficult Things Overlooked

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.”

Feels Art Balance Comfortable Intention Albums Realms Delicate Standing Out Tricky

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.”

Believe I Believe Virtue Balance Intention Vices

Author:Cee Lo Green

“I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business. Of course, your margins aren't going to be as good as they would be if you were just a straight consumer goods fashion company, but obviously the purpose is so much greater. It takes some balancing to figure out how much you can afford to give, but it's definitely possible - and all the more meaningful, if you can strike that balance.”

Giving Purpose Successful Fashion Balance Intention Believer Meaningful Giving Back Successful Business

Author:Lauren Bush

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940