Quotes About Balance

I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.

Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.

Sometimes, when you're doing too much, things get overwhelming. So I just have to calm myself down and think, 'What would my mama want me to do?'

Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality.

The best managers use pressure only rarely and never over extended periods.

More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it's okay sometimes not to answer their phones, and they must learn that their time–not just the quantity but its quality–is important.

When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

There is nothing on earth that complex

Existence required order, and there was order; the laws of nature, irrevocable and immutable.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds; they are intertwined and holistic.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

Truth without love doesn't work. Some people use the truth like a weapon. They don't tell the truth; they aim it. The truth sometimes hurts, but it doesn't have to maim, kill, or destroy. As

If you are going to have healthy relationships, you'll need to spend time alone with God. Paradoxically, those who have the healthiest relationships often are the most comfortable in being alone with God.

Harmony enables small things to flourish – while the lack of it destroys the great.