Quotes About Balance

I accept you need the right balance, people do need to know their privacy is protected, but when it's essential information which will be dealt with by security agencies... I do feel the public interest overrides that.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

I go to public school, which is nice because that's where I can go to be Darci, and when I perform, I'm Darci Lynne. It's my balance.

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

I'm tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

I don't go running after publicity.

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

There are mums in the kitchen at amazing pubs and that can work - it's just as tough but the pressure is different, the hours are different. Anais was nine months old when she started in nursery so I could go back to the kitchen full-time.

For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.

It's overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It's the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me want to puke. I'm nauseous. Know what I mean? Your game's off.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.