Quotes About Balance

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

It is impossible to please all the world.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.