Quotes About Balance

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.