Quotes About Balance

Life is about being present. Sometimes your home will demand more attention, and you should be there. Sometimes your work is more demanding. But the beautiful thing when you create your life's work is that it always feels like you're on a mission.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'

Yes I'm a TV presenter and a mum and a wife and all those things, but as much as I love a duvet day with my family, I also like rockclimbing and getting dressed up for a glamorous evening now and then.

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

I give myself little presents all the time. But I don't do extravagant things.

I do worry about population growth and the preservation of the green belt space but I don't think these are insurmountable problems.

We will preserve the environment.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

I hope people understand there is a world outside our life in this bubble and hope we can appreciate it and preserve it.

I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

I think President Obama, like myself, is a multitasker.

In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's hawkishness - the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we're in need of one.

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

There is no such thing as absolute freedom of the press, not even in the most advanced countries in the world. There are things you just don't say, because it will destabilise the environment.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

As a mother I had to sacrifice a lot due to the pressing demands of my career.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.