Quotes About Juggling

One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

It's nice in that I have my track life and I have my school life, and so far I've been balancing them really well.

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.

I've tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

A balancing act of equally unlikely options was the only answer that the city and the nation gave to the requests of these poor people. This juggling of options—in this instance, countering school-funding efforts with the need for preschool—does no good if neither of these options is to be enacted anyway and if the act of balancing only serves to guarantee our permanent inaction in both areas.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.