#balance

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#balance sheets #cannot #men #poetry #read

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#beauty #harmony #style #ugly #vice

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#hate #i #life #my life #myself

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that. ↗

— Lily Collins

#comes #cons #far #feel #getting

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#balance #city #environment #find #life

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#body #combining #mind #olympism #qualities

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World. ↗

— Brian Cox

#greener #i #i love #kinds #lost

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #amino acid #balance #both #coding

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#anyone #anyway #assumption #attitudes #balance