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“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.”

Whole Fighting Three Balance Civilization Harmony Whole Life Handle Rhythm Three Things Rowing

Book:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Source: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.”

Knows Feels Matter Challenges Balance Activity Skills Tasks Strikes Rhythm Performing Pulse Sync

Book:Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

Source: Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

“A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.”

Men Years Different Universe Sex Balance Female Males Attraction Rhythm Novelty Neutrality Life Time Repulsion

Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

“There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.”

Thinking Real Fiction Novel Balance Real Life Confusion Rhythm Rescue

Author:Don DeLillo

“Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.”

Heart Body Produce Balance Walking Labor Strikes Rhythm Breathing Delicate Closest Arrivals

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.”

Trying Years Wells Kind Littles Stills Lasts Song Lines Balance Fit Inspired Guitar Patterns Rhythm Melody Hook Chords Confidant

Author:Butterfly Boucher

“Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.”

Way Feelings Difficult Balance Extremes Rhythm Swings Strict Elegant Maintaining Equilibrium Guidelines Grids Coordination Executing Panache

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.”

Principles Fashion Design Balance Harmony Rhythm Interiors Fashion Design

Author:Venus Williams