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Quotes About Balance

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
~ Mark Zandi
To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
~ Martha Beck
When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
~ Martin Lawrence
One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
~ Martina Hingis
You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.
~ Marty Nemko
Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.
~ Marvin Hamlisch
I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.
~ Mary McCormack
I work on weekends, but from home.
~ Mary Schapiro
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.
~ Unknown
Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
~ Matthew Fox
I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?
~ Matthew McConaughey
I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.
~ Matthew Perry
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
~ Mavis Gallant
It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.
~ Max Tundra
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
~ May Sarton
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
~ May Sarton
I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
~ Meg Tilly
I have had bosses that were genuinely excited when I told them I was pregnant. I feel very blessed, but I also know I need to continue to do excellent work and stay organized.
~ Megan Alexander
If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm always busy. And I don't even see it really as work, because everything I do I still really enjoy.
~ Melanie Brown
Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.
~ Melina Marchetta
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
~ Merv Griffin
I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
~ Meryl Streep