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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

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film. ↗

— Channing Tatum

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The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#going #i #others #pretty #successful

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#balancing #blows #books #career #cushion

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#balance #be real #me #metaphysical #nuclear

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#balance #camp #consumers #digital #finds

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#balance sheets #business #cash #earliest #fact

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. ↗

— George Canning

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In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. ↗

— Duane Chapman

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