Quotes About Balance

I dream too much, work too little.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.