Quotes About Balance

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Even now - I'm 35 - I've been in a relationship for 15 years with a guy, and we have two full incomes and no kids, and it's hilarious. We're children, perpetually, because of this rock and roll thing. But it's still so fulfilling.

The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.

Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?

I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.

I will continue to practice a martial arts form along with the mental and spiritual aspect that come with building a balanced life, and I will continue to incorporate it into whatever films I can.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

I am living my childhood with my kids, although it's true that responsibilities have increased.

I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

I am increasingly of the mind that all fat is good.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.