Quotes About Balance

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.

I work out, but not like I should.

I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I take care of myself. I work out every day. I eat healthy. But I like to have fun too.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.