“If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.” IfsWayUseCoursesWinningBalanceBattleEnlightenmentStrategyInevitableConfrontation Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.” CharacterTogetherNamesQualityMoralVirtueGroupsDevelopmentBalanceBattlePerfectionIntellectActivePassiveAssemblageGreat BattleBattle Of Life Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.” MindRealFightingPracticeBuddhismBalanceVictoryBattleGainsDefeatVictory And DefeatReal Victory Author:Frederick Lenz
“I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.” IfsWantFeelsWritingMeanPlaySpiritWishHalfWatchesNiceBalanceBattleGuiltyRelaxChocolateAfternoonFree SpiritBravo Author:Sarah Dessen
“Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.” WritingNightCompanyIssuesMilitaryBalanceRepublicanBattleDemocratMetaphorDesertCopiesDivisionDesksRatsIsraeliHeadlinesRiflesMontgomeryMcclellan Author:Wesley Pruden
“I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.” PeopleCountryEconomyEconomicBalanceBattleArgumentLaborTensionMiddle ClassWorking Class20th Century Author:David Simon
“Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.” ThinkingMenMeanChildrenParentJusticeBalanceBattleMercyRighteousnessScholarRighteousBiblicalGenesis Author:Darren Aronofsky
“Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.” IdeasWholeCultureBalanceBattleSeriesTyrannyChecksSwingsPendulums Author:Jon Stewart