“Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.” HeartJoyOpportunityActingBalanceLaborTasksObligationManageRemarkableRacistCompleting Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.” ThinkingGivingKindFactsHelpingCoursesOpportunityBeliefSocialRolesRevolutionNeededBalanceHealthyDemandDeterminationTasksInstitutionsDefinitionsAggressiveAfflictionConfrontationUnhealthySocial Roles Author:Barbara Deming
“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.” HalfMoralBalanceCreaturesAngelTasksMirrorsMonstersDisasterLegendsInvitesDualityTamed Author:Suetonius
“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.” KnowsFeelsMatterChallengesBalanceActivitySkillsTasksStrikesRhythmPerformingPulseSync Book:Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness Source: Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness
“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.” WellsImportantReasonGovernmentOrderAbilityDealsAchieveConditionsBalanceTasksFavorsWell BeingCivilizedCivilized SocietyWartime Author:William Rehnquist
“The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.” BookCultureEasyChallengesViewsGrowing UpGrowingBalanceHealthyFindingsTasksScriptureFulfillingEasy Tasks Author:Alex Kendrick
“What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want to seclude them but, at the same time, we want them to have wisdom and discernment to make wise decisions - to protect them through the love of the family and the value that we have in one another and in the Lord and our time in Scripture. Finding that balance is not an easy task but it can be done.” WorldWantDoneValuesEasyDecisionLordWiseBalanceProtectFindingsTasksScriptureOur TimeDiscernmentWise DecisionEasy Tasks Author:Alex Kendrick
“Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.” NeedsFirstsChildrenWholeFacesCareersAchieveCenturyBalanceTasksTwentiesOur ChildrenEducate Author:Ken Robinson
“When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.” HumansBodyGrowthChristNaturalChurchBalanceDiseaseNormalTasksRemoveBarriersHuman BodyBody Of ChristUnbalanced Author:Rick Warren
“My task as a pastor is to remind people of the need for balance. If someone wants to stress personal union with Christ, I remind them of the need for knowledge as well. If they want to stress knowledge, I tell them about their need to depend on Christ.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWellsChristDependsBalanceTasksStressUnionsPastor Author:Mark Dever
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.” GivingShouldHumansMadeImportantActionForceSoundExistenceConsciousnessClearDoubtDependsBalanceMoralityAuthorityJudgmentDignityTasksFoundationStriveMythDependentEndeavorTiedOur ActionsLegitimacySound Judgment Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives