Best Imbalance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?”

Brain Despair Suicide Chemistry Imbalance

Source: Suicide Note

“We fluctuate between joy and sorrow. That's okay. That's the thing about being human”

Okay Being Human Instability Imbalance Rise And Fall Transience Existing Sufferings Moods Joy And Sorrow

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.”

Judgment Consequence Pressure Routine Resentment Fatigue Irritation Imbalance Monotony Pettiness

Author:Belinda Kelderhouse

“Stay gRounded, even in fLight.”

Hell Chaos Winter Calm Heavenly Controlled Balanced Imbalance Blooming

Author:Alogaristw

“An imbalance in our economy is an imbalance in our relationship with the world. As we change, our world changes”

World Money Economy Imbalance

Book:Joyful Economy

Source: Joyful Economy

“Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my “999 (or Nick Leeson)” account.”

Money Crime Stealing Resolution Fraud Dishonesty Difference Imbalance White Collar Crime Embezzlement Audit Discrepancy Bust 999 Leeson Nick Leeson

Book:Bust

Source: Bust

“Sleep is rest for the rich, but laziness for the poor.”

Luxury Rich And Poor Class Struggle Imbalance Social Commentary Disparity Lower Class Classes Contrasts Resting

Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“Free speech is when the left-wing dislike but allow the words and thoughts of the right-wing, and the right-wing dislike but allow the words and thoughts of the left-wing. What we are experiencing now in Western democracies, is the left-wing not only disallowing the words and thoughts of the right-wing, but also the words and thoughts of the moderates. Any such imbalance is dangerous to society.”

Freedom Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Moderates Right Wing Left Wing Imbalance Freedom Of Speech Quotes Free Speech Rights

Author:Robert Black

“But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another.”

Relationships Imbalance Power Dynamics Julian Barnes The Only Story Relationship Dynamics

Book:The Only Story

Source: The Only Story

“What amounts to a plague of mental illness is now addressed as ‘normal’ rather than as an indication that there is something terrifyingly wrong with our culture. The fact that we no longer understand mental illness as a message – that is, as a nondeclarative communication of an imbalance that requires rectification – not only demonstrates the degree of our emotional illiteracy, but our failure to understand the principle of balance as the axis of all existence.”

Balance Memory Mental Illness Imbalance Dysfunction Western Culture Dysfunctional Families Desensitization Normalization Neuroses

Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Imbalance and self-destruction can be our inevitable fate if we devote ourselves entirely to others without previously nurturing a stable sense of self. (" Sweet Smell of Submission")”

Sense Of Self Self Destruction Imbalance Sweet Smell Of Submission Devote Oneself To Others

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“What is a work-life imbalance? It's: I feel safe at home, I don't feel safe at work. That's the imbalance. And no amount of yoga or vacation time is going to fix that.”

Balance Work Life Balance Imbalance Balance In Life Work Life Lewis Howes Work Life Conflict School Of Greatness Podcast

Author:Simon Sinek

“Fear is typically one-part fact and about ten-parts fiction. And that kind of formula grows things real big, real fast.”

Fear Fiction Balance Fearful Frightening Fact Intimidated Imbalance Exaggerate

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most people who work for themselves have achieved work-life imbalance.”

Balance Work Life Balance Imbalance Work Life Self Employment Work From Home Self Employed Deliberate Practice Work For Yourself Deliberate Rest

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people in the civilized nations were able to monopolize those commodities by reason of their greater economic strength. This imbalance appeared to be at the root of the disputes.”

Civilization Economics Greed Exploitation Imbalance Dystopian Future Monopoly Capitalism Invereted World

Author:Cristopher Priest

“We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. No country should be given power over another. In addition, no country should be granted privileges that are denied to others. No one country has the authority to decide which country will be embargoed, denied to protect itself, and will be favored based on the weight of their resources. Eliminate the hypocrisy.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.”

Wells Acting Spending Revenue Deficit Imbalance

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.”

Self Powerful Emotional Checks Most Powerful Attachment Melting Medication Imbalance

Author:Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”

“We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?”

Thinking World Should Problem Realizing Focus Activity Asking Should I Imbalance

Book:The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul

Source: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul

“The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.”

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”

Men Wells May Might Able Strong Subjects Judging Months Healthy Judgment Weak Murder Lifetime Patient Extremes Gods Will Chemicals Stable Imbalance Judge Me

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.”

Feels Humans Art Ends Artist Bits Produce Goes On Anxiety Balanced Neurosis Being An Artist Imbalance

Author:Beverly Pepper

“Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.”

Policy Reducing Monetary Imbalance Monetary Policy

Author:Timothy Geithner

“If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.”

“The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.”

Risk Economic Remains Addresses Fragile Uncertain Persist Outlook Instability Imbalance Uncertain Future

Author:Julia Gillard

“The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.”

Ifs Country Views Taken Point Of View Consideration Dependence Imbalance Underdeveloped Countries

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.”

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.”

Men Way Use Used Worry Dirty Perceive Imbalance Dirty Words

Author:Warren Farrell

“In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.”

Littles Form Used Sex Bed Female Murder Males Sexuality Aggression Pornography Imbalance Little Love Male Female Female Power

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”

Self Ability Economy Greater Consequence Response Size Inevitable Flexible Disturbance Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.”

Shows Form Grows Optimism Financial Wave Seeds Participants Susceptible Imbalance Financial Markets Reversal

Author:Alan Greenspan

“While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.”

May States Seems Given United United States Economy Diversity Size Significant Locals Severe Unlikely Distortion Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.”

Sides Buddhism Unhappiness Imbalance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.”

“Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.”

Way Helping Evil Quiet Wounds Heal Manifestation Collectives Sane Superficial Sober Disturbance Imbalance

Author:Deepak Chopra

“This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.”

World Way Darkness Stress Cynical Craziness Imbalance

Author:Ann Wilson

“Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.”

“Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.”

“We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads.”

Trying Stories Happens Written Figures Scene Flow Dialogue Highlights Imbalance

Author:Bruce Greenwood

“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.”

“Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present time. And in order to counter this, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion and morality a dynamic force in our world.”

World Needs Order Force Voice Huge Morality Terrorism Rage Awful Our World Compassionate Alienation Fury Imbalance Present Time

Author:Karen Armstrong

“We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.”

People Way Want Mind Leader Movement Speech Gender Chiefs Pope Discourse Bishops Imbalance Rabbi Grassroots Grassroots Movements

Author:Karen Armstrong

“America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.”

“American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.”

“Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.”

Trying Can Do Worst Dangerous Normal Accepted Worst Things Imbalance

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance with it all. Where are the shows that allow the entire family to sit down and enjoy something together?”

Feels Mean Shows Together Enjoy Huge Happenings Down And Storytelling Imbalance

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.”

States Nations Audience Study Constant Strive Absence Frightened Imbalance

Author:Edward R. Murrow

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