“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.” KnowsArtDifferentSelfArtistLevelsMysteryInfluenceBalanceLimitsArt IsTolerancePursuitDelicateDifferent LevelsScotchAssertivenessPersonal Limits Author:Robert Genn
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.” WorldArtSeemsChanceRolesPlansMysteryBalanceLimitsEssentialsSurpriseOperationsRecognizingCalculationsParadoxicalCollaboratingUnforeseen Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.” MenArtScienceOrderEasyStruggleMysteryCreationHe ManBalanceChaosEdgesFamiliarNoveltySynthesisEasy Life Book:Uncommon Sense Source: Uncommon Sense
“In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.” ClearMysteryInfluenceBalanceOffersExplanationStayingDaily LifeBalancedChakra Author:Salle Merrill Redfield
“It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?” KnowsNeedsMeanKnowingMysteryBalance Author:Kevin Durant
“There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.” MindBelieveMysteryBalanceSkeptical Author:Peter O'Toole
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?” StillsSoulHeavenStarsStepsSunMysteryBalanceMoonRemainsSevenFinalsOneselfOrbitCalculatingMapping Author:Oscar Wilde