Quotes About Balance

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.