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Quotes About Balance

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
~ Mandy Moore
Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.
~ Manolo Blahnik
Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.
~ Marg Helgenberger
My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.
~ Marissa Mayer
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
~ Mark Twain
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
~ Martin Luther
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.
~ Marty Nemko
Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.
~ Mary Kay Ash
I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
~ Max von Sydow
We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
~ Melinda Gates
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
~ Meryl Streep
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
~ Meryl Streep
You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.
~ Michael Schur
When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
~ Mike Judge
I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.
~ Mikhail Prokhorov
For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested. Not tired but vice versa. I think sport balances off my work load.
~ Mikhail Prokhorov
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
~ Missy Elliot
Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
~ Nicholas Hoult
Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
~ Nicholas Lore
History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.
~ Nicholson Baker
I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.
~ Nina Agdal
The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
~ Patrick Dixon
My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.
~ Pauley Perrette