Quotes About Balance

I love not to be busy in a certain way.

I have to work. I have a certain way of life I want to maintain.

At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.

Chairs are like sculpture.

Riding a camel was a challenge.

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does make it a little challenging to do other things.

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.

Coco Chanel had that famous line about when you go out the house take off one accessory, so I kind of live by that rule.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

But I like the chaos. As long as it's happy chaos.

My best characteristic is that I don't take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I'll be mucking about. So I'm aware it's annoying for everyone else.

I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.

You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

If you manage to joke around and charm people, it means that from inside, you are very serious.

I think you have to chase your life even harder than you chase your career.