Quotes About Balance

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Golf is such a big commitment, and so is acting. Sometimes you have to give up something to do something else, although, when I'm working on location, I always take my clubs.

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.

I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.

My family matters most to me, even though so much of our daily lives and commitments make it so difficult to be as present with those you love as you might wish.

It's hard to balance work-life commitments and sometimes you feel you're not doing anything particularly well.

I get asked all the time how much sleep I get. That's what happens when you write a book called 'The Sleep Revolution,' travel around the world talking about it, and found a company committed to ending our global burnout crisis.

I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

I want to remain a common man, want to spend time with my family.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.

When I have a really big shoot, I start thinking about the calories and how much I'm eating compared to how much I'm working out.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

I think a couple should complete one another, not compete with one another.

I'm used to putting so many things aside to be able to compete.

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.