I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.
China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.
There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons, we justify wars for idealist reasons, and it's the president's job to balance the two. " I agree.
I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.
As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.
If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.
I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal. . . other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.
Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.