“The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all.” UseEnergyStudySawsBalanceAidsConservationIntroductionNo LoveEnergy Conservation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz
“I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape, or any kind of flow, it's random. Gender...we didn't think much about it. It was sort of interesting to see that women often were choosing women and men often were choosing men. And sometimes they wouldn't and that was fun. I didn't know that I would be excited by that, until I saw it happen.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenKindSometimesHappensWould BeOrderFunInterestingSawsBalanceShapesMen And WomenFlowExcitedGenderMoodAlphabetical Order Author:Lorin Stein
“I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."” WholeSawsBalanceAspectPullingTotalityParts Of A Whole Author:Brenda Strong
“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.” KindImportantUseMemoriesLossInterestingCitiesSawsPiecesBalanceSignificantDramaticNeighborhoodManhattanLively Author:Daniel Libeskind
“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
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.” IfsWorldSaidBookWould BeTogetherLostNumbersSawsWrittenBalanceFoundationPatternsBeing TrueRanStayingSquaresTwistedFittingFitting Together Author:Ursula K. Le Guin