Home / Topics / Balance Quotes

Balance Quotes

Browse 3864 quotes about Balance.

Balance Quotes

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

War Character Turns Three Materials Balance Relation Quarters Total War Manpower Personal Character

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.”

Way Certain Process Design Materials Balance Elements Organization Function Productive Harmonious

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.”

Humans Spiritual Wonder Technology Human Nature Materials Balance Demand Response Rejected New Technology

Author:John Naisbitt

“Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.”

Firsts Spiritual Certain Values Culture Materials Balance Spiritual Values

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.”

Whole Feelings Inspiration Spiritual Education Security Materials Balance Comfort Laughter Unions Psychological Dimensions Spiritual Dimensions

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

“The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.”

Should Art Made Quality Moral Materials Balance Should Have Unity Works Of Art Contrast Formal Sensitivity Good Moral

Author:Norman McLaren

“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.”

World Artist Order Responsibility Creation Materials Communication Return Balance Labor Contact Realms Working It Mystical Intuitive Seductive Material World

Author:Patti Smith