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“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.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

Giving Trying Whole Practice Figures Buddhism Balance Giving Up Not Giving Up Just Give Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

People Humans Wells Whole Shows Groups Evolution Balance Behavior Training Patterns Evolve Builder Destroyers

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.”

Giving May Whole Use Body Values Wealth Results Produce Industry Balance Encouragement Consumers Consumption Maintaining Unproductive

Book:The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2

Source: The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2

“It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.”

Ifs Sometimes Whole Happens Loses Figures Design Fine Balance Window Ruins Canvas Strokes Exit Precision Cords Fudge Umbilical Cord Rectangles

Author:James Nares

“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.”

Whole Fighting Three Balance Civilization Harmony Whole Life Handle Rhythm Three Things Rowing

Book:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Source: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”

Humans Kind Self Whole Suffering Secret Events Needed Balance Mass Tragedy Triumph Excitement Midst Serenity Tranquility Attempting Calamity Rushing Secret Life

Author:Margaret Bourke-White