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Quotes About Balance

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
~ Park Chan-wook
Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
~ Pat Barker
My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
~ Patrick Dempsey
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.
~ Patrick Ness
Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
~ Patti Smith
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.
~ Paul Dano
I like to work - I probably work too much.
~ Paul Giamatti
There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.
~ Unknown
I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
~ Paul Young
Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
~ Paulo Coelho
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
~ Paulo Coelho
All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.
~ Peace Pilgrim
I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine.
~ Pedro Winter
Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.
~ Penelope Ann Miller
I'm lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I'm working or whether I'm playing.
~ Peter Cundill
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
~ Peter Drucker
I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.
~ Peter Mayle
If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
~ Peter Megargee Brown
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.
~ Peter Turchi
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
~ Philip Larkin
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
~ Philippa Perry
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
~ Pierre Salinger
I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.
~ Prince Fielder
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
~ Quentin Crisp