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“What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.”

Want Feels Littles Persons Turns Bits Balance Little Bit Okay

Author:Zoe Saldana

“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.”

Light Moving Form Turns Space Painting Balance Lucky Draws Relation Paint Anxious Surprising Actuality Methodology Lucky Day

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“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

“Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.”

Knows World Turns Situation Greater Balance Stress Pressure Tendencies Executives Boss

Author:Srikumar Rao

“When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.”

Way Mind Believe Ideas Happens Young Turns Stars Grows Generations Possibility Youth Bears Balance One Way Ridicule Impossibility Unconquerable

Author:Isak Dinesen

“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”

Turns Waiting Interest Wealth Justice Balance Riches Scales

Author:Delarivier Manley

“The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.”

People Thinking Way Want Trying Important Different Sometimes Use Shows Able Song Turns Stuff Information Balance Messages Entertainment Different Ways Extras Concerts Music And Dance

Author:Jack Johnson

“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.”

“We know that we have to have the right combinations of government policies and private sector energy and dynamism. Getting that balance right is what I know President Obama has tried to do, and at every turn he's been stopped.”

Knows Government Turns Energy President Policy Balance Combination President Obama Private Sector Dynamism Government Policy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.”

Life Is Turns Understanding Personality Balance Shapes Determined Memorable Tension Accurate Overview

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues