“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.” WantI CanIdeasWantedSidesAnimalDyingBearsBalanceEntrepreneurAbandonedWalkersVets Author:Georgia May Jagger
“I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which happened to me on other things so you're always trying for a delicate balance - I also think that they compliment each other so well.” ThinkingTryingWellsSometimesWantedComedyHappenedTroubleBalanceDramaComplimentDelicateBack And ForthAlways Trying Author:Mike Binder
“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.” PeopleWayWellsSaidMatterWantedBalanceMarriedExpectedReactionsSettlingAwakeRelaxBucksSettling DownHappily MarriedOur WeddingBogart Author:Lauren Bacall
“I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.” WritingWantedLinesPathToo MuchWrittenSacrificeBalanceSakeStormLiberationInstantManuscripts Author:Nina Berberova
“I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. I think that's a part of growing up.” ThinkingKnowsDifferentFeelingsWantedHurtGrowing UpGrowingBalanceComplicatedHurts Someone Author:Mickey Sumner
“In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.” PeopleWorldMindWellsPersonsStatesUseWantedOrderCoursesChristWalksPathHumilityExpressionKingsBalanceIndividualityImpressionDiscussionState Of MindDepressingDominantTurmoilElevatingTrue Humility Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.” WayYearsWellsHardWantedLastsBeautifulSpacePleasureMissingDivineBalanceAnxietyStressLongingTricksDevotionGreekGiantsEnjoymentUrgesWorldlyTrashTranscendenceStress Free Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.” TryingPersonsSaidWantedBalancePatientMediumsProductiveGrandmotherMy GrandmotherBe PatientImpatient Author:Farrah Gray
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would make the Minions more a part of the story than they were in the first movie. In this one, as you know, they're disappearing. What's happening to the Minions? We made them a much bigger part of the movie in those terms.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsMadeStoriesWantedTermBalanceHappeningsBiggerDisappearMinions Author:Cinco Paul
“I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.” TryingStillsAbleWantedChoicesEnjoyLosesJourneyShareCollegeBalanceHealthyBenefitsCreatingDirectDifficultyIncludingLifestyleTricksPoundsHealthy LifestyleFood LoveCollege LifeNew RelationshipLifestyle ChoicesCollege Experience Author:Daphne Oz
“I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.” WayDifferentWantedBalanceDualityGoodman Author:Jillian Hervey
“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
“I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.” WantedPresidentPartyBalanceMemorableCandidatesConventionsTicketsCharismaticLarger Than LifeNominating Author:Mike Pence
“Al Gore was a good guy and he wanted to give flextime to American women who are trying to balance work and family, but he couldn't because the business interests are organized, and they don't want it to happen.” WantGivingTryingHappensWantedGuyInterestBalanceOrganizedAlsGoreGood GuyAmerican Woman Author:Naomi Wolf
“Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.” PeopleWayWantedCoursesLeftBalanceBuiltGolfEtcGolf CourseDoing Right Author:Jack Nicklaus
“My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.” ChildrenMadeWantedJobsCertainChoicesBalanceCostHusbandHarderStabilityMy SisterSteadySpontaneousBe Spontaneous Author:Simon Sinek
“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?” IfsWritingEnoughWantedThreeFocusStudentsTaughtPoetBalanceBenefitsOppositesPhilosopherExtremesListsWhat IfUnhappinessDestinedSufiItemsThree ThingsWorldviewClashMost Wanted Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.” WaySeemsWantedPastStrangeBalanceWrapsGoofy Book:Stargirl Source: Stargirl
“The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.” IfsStoriesWantedMotherEasyBitsToo MuchWorstBalanceWeightAdd Author:Sarah Dessen