Quotes About Balance

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.