Quotes About Balance

I remember working as a paralegal at a law firm, being so exhausted that, midday, I would go to the utility closet to take a nap. And to me, that wasn't the evidence of a serious illness; it was evidence that somehow I wasn't able to work long hours or to work as hard as the people around me.

With the economy and the environment situated as two pillars of the country's growth, my administration will make the utmost effort to achieve a green society.

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

Work is my utmost priority and I am good at multitasking.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

I would rather be working than be on vacation. Always.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you're exhausted.

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.