Quotes About Balance

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

You can't just build a huge chest and arms. You need to work out your body evenly. Otherwise, A, you'll look weird, and B, it's not the best for your body.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.