Quotes About Balance

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don't take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it's a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don't handle attention very well.

I've attempted tech-free days when I turn off the phone and stare at the iPad instead.

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Health starts in the head and goes to the heart and other parts of the body.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.