Quotes About Juggling

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

I have this wonderful schedule where I work full-time and also get to be a full-time mom.

Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There's teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off.

Whatever career you're in, whether it's business or sports, it's hard to keep friendships alive. It's hard to keep them thriving and remain interested in each other's lives when you have so much going on personally.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

First, there were the are-we-going-to-have-enough-money-to-pay-the-rent arguments. Then came the health problems that sidelined her father from work. Then Anita had to move in because they couldn't afford a nursing home anymore. Miranda juggled three jobs to make ends meet, barely seeing Jasmine and Ruby.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

Basye, the tailor's wife, butted in. She was a tiny woman, who performed three jobs at once. She rocked the baby with her foot, darned a sock with her hands, and fussed and fumed with her mouth.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.