Quotes About Balance

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

I have a very busy life, and I love meeting people, but I also like to be alone.

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

I'm meeting people I never would have met at Brown and doing things I couldn't do because of basketball.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don't have meetings scheduled.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.

Ive got the greatest job ever and Im very lucky to be able to achieve a work/life balance that most working mums cant, but when I get the balance wrong, it makes me melancholy, which isnt who I am.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

I am not a robot; I am a member of a family - my commitment to them comes over and above my commitment to cycling.

Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.