Quotes About Balance

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.