"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself."

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Jessye Norman

#People Quotes #Balance Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”
“I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.”
“One thing that golf teaches you is humility.”
“In every crisis there is a message....”
“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”

Source : "Today" Programme, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk. May 2010.
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
“I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.”
“Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.”

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