Quotes About Balance

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.