Shepard Fairey Quotes

It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

You don't have to be positive all the time.

When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.

There always needs to be some excitement and some peace and quiet - otherwise you'll have a heart attack.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

In everything the middle road is best.

I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.