Quotes About Balance

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

We haven't the time to take out time.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Control is a nice concept, little more.

There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.

My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.

Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: "No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.