Quotes About Balance

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.

The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.

There's a time and a place when it needs to be all about hockey. I don't think that's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How you choose to spend that time when it's not all about hockey is completely up to you.

Why do I have to just focus on hockey? Why can't I help people? Why can't I have fun with my fans?

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.

You need balance, and if you have dynamic people - I've always tried to assess the talent and say, 'Okay, how can we get better as a group and how can we win hockey games?'

I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

If you have three children under the age of four, as I did, you have to make choices, because you cannot hold hands with all of them.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

You don't want to be playing 36 holes on the day before a game.

I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.

My parents always wonder why I work round the clock and I never had an answer, until one day I came across a street full of Oyos. I saw so many families and friends on holiday there. This made me happy - life had come full circle in that moment!

I go on holiday abroad two or three times a year, then through work I'm away another couple of times.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.