Quotes About Balance

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

compromise is the work of mature people.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

I stay healthy through eating well, working out - simply living a healthy lifestyle.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

My life is very much consumed with work.