Quotes About Balance

I like success, but I don't believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It's more important to stay in my skin.

While we should be moving very quickly and building great products for our consumers, it should never come at the expense of security, uptime, things like that.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved - but just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

I like to wear something expensive with something that's not.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

The secret is I get very little sleep, and one day, I'll probably explode.

Whatever you are good at, do it, but don't be over exposed.

There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

I think, for me, since I've always had a busy lifestyle, I try to take out a little time for me and exercise and do things that are good for me, because if I'm not good, then I can't extend that out to my family.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

Your core is the center of your entire body - everything else is an extension - so you want to make sure you're strong in your entire core and not just part of it.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.'