Quotes About Balance

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where our people can be successful, both professionally and personally.

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me.

You can't do TLC dances successfully in high heels.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

We often succumb to our food cravings, but it is necessary to have a good diet.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.

There is such a thing as too much fun.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

I make my food in such a way that people can eat it every single day. My dad passed away from a heart attack, so it's always been very important for me to make food I love, the food we made growing up, but in a way that it won't be harmful to my body or to the people I love. Just as long as it's not boring. It has to be flavorful and delicious.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.

You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.

Luckily I've got family and friends to keep me grounded because there are a lot of negative people around who can suck the energy out of you.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.