Quotes About Balance

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

I eat healthy most of the time, but I love chocolate. I can't help it!

There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.