Quotes About Balance

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good."

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.