Quotes About Balance

If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

My whole life is my work.

I work in L.A. from time to time.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.