Quotes About Balance

We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

I couldn't imagine that my career could have contributed to the demise of my marriage, but I do think neither of us realized that when you spend 60 to 70 days a year face-to-face, no marriage is going to survive. No relationship is going to survive.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'

I start my day with two eggs and two slices of toast along with juice and take 1-2 chapatis with dal and curd rice at lunch.

I make myself eat one piece of toast for breakfast. When I'm doing 'Bake Off,' I eat soup for lunch. I know what puts on weight for me; it's just over-indulgence.

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

In the morning, I'll usually do eggs and toast, but at night I keep it all protein.

I love eggs and toast, and my friends and I will always get table pancakes to share. Then, in the afternoon, it's time to work it off!

I try to eat 'real' food as much as I can; often I'll shove a load of ingredients - spinach, an apple or whatever's knocking about - in my NutriBullet. Nothing beats a bit of buttery toast though! I think a little bit of what you fancy does you good.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

Whenever I feel mom-guilt, or I feel pressure to be a better mom - to cook salmon on a bed of quinoa for my kids - I just think to myself, 'I... have... suffered... enough.' And then I feel fine about feeding my toddler a bag of chips for dinner.

I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

With a toddler, chilling out is hard to do.

No one likes to play grandfather, especially when you are a father of two toddlers in real life.

I always wear flat shoes for darts because a heel can put me off balance. I press the side of my shoe against the oche, not the toe. That puts my throwing arm a few inches closer to the board. Not everybody is the same but it works for me.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win.

I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.