Quotes About Balance

I get at least six hours each night, meaning I am generally in bed at 9pm. Then, to top up my sleep, I take a nap as soon as I get home from the studio each morning at 9.30am. Although my sleep is broken into two chunks, this makes up a seven-hour total that keeps me going.

If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

I prefer eight hours of sound sleep at night. But on days when I can't, I try not to fuss about it and keep taking power naps through the day.

I get by with power naps.

I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.

I take a lot of naps.

Sleep is important; I try and get about 9 hours if I can at night, but I don't tend to nap during the day.

When I was younger I remember rushing back and cooking a meal for the family, and never thinking about having a nap between the shows!

Narcissism in moderate amounts is not harmful to health.

Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt like a bit of a narcissist, always doing just my art - even though I feel like artists are doing a service as well. I needed something a little more literal, instead of writing music and hoping people enjoyed it.

Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

I think women have the natural ability to do multi-tasking.

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

Doing what's best for our kids means restoring balance, commonsense and conservation to the management of our natural resources.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.