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The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. -- Kerri Walsh
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. -- Deborah Tannen
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. -- Walter Benjamin
Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act. -- Karrin Allyson
Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act. -- Dr. Seuss
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence -- Deborah Tannen
It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking. -- Peter Reinhart
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content. -- George L. Carlson
It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating. -- Jim Gaffigan
Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act, that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty -- Shane Koyczan
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century. -- David Hare
Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen. -- Takashi Miike
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique. -- Charles Derber
When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act. -- Cameron Crowe
When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's a tricky balancing act. But as long as it's sort of a righteous idea, then you're good to go. -- El-P
My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one. -- Jewel
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites. -- Robertson Davies
I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work. -- Michael Sheen
We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea. -- Conor Oberst
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate. -- Susanna Kearsley
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on. -- Kate Christensen
Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act. -- Leigh-Allyn Baker
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act. -- Kelly Preston
The balancing act is challenging at times. -- Jeremy Jones
Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact. -- Santosh Kalwar
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation. -- Stephen King
The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you. -- John Eldredge
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components. -- DJ Spooky
It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters. -- Charles Emmerson
Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves. -- Deb Caletti
I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand. -- Paloma Faith
Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them. -- Daniel Dennett
My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act. -- Torill Kove
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself? -- Judith Warner
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. -- Dr. Seuss
When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me. -- Susan Rice
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. -- Dr. Seuss
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. -- Bill Owens
Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda. -- Kevin McCarthy
The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly. -- Ben Bernanke
I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult. -- Katy Perry
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. -- Stephen Covey
Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector. -- Kerry Stokes
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. -- Davy Crockett
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system. -- Viet D. Dinh
You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in. -- Aaron Lazar
We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me. -- Anthony Kiedis
I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark. -- Vincent Cassel
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. -- Barbara Deming
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes. -- Cliff Stearns
Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe -- Ursula Hegi

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