Quotes About Balance

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.