“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?” GivingEnoughValuesAsksRoomsCreativePiecesBuddhismBalancePaperHarmonyDown AndListsSuperficialAdopting 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
“Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.” IfsMenCountryGovernmentPoliticalHeroBalancePaperTraditionChecksOur CountryDividedPapersDisagreementFactionsFederalistFederalist PapersDivided Government Author:Jonah Goldberg
“I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.” ImportantHomeRunningReadingLove IsMorningBalancePaperCoffeeCupsShoppingGroceriesLaundryCoffee CupErrandsGrocery Shopping Author:Tristan Prettyman
“At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.” AgeWeekBalancePaperSixTwentiesDollarsAverageProfitCustomersNineIncomeThirtyCentsSixtyRoutesPapers Book:Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography Source: Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography
“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.” KnowsNeedsSometimesMy OwnStepsStageCreationBalancePaperShadowTricksPensPerpetualOngoingSteps ForwardCenter Stage Author:Allison Joseph