Quotes About Work-life

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

I believe we are built to have thriving personal lives, and I think we're built to have thriving professional lives. Where the error occurs is when one becomes secondary to the other.

I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

The challenge is to find a new way of working that complements our lives rather than compromises them, striking a balance between how we would like to live our lives and how we would like to work.

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

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

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

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

Do you know, I had a feeling of leisure in France and in England. I felt there as though people made their jobs work for them; they didn't give up their lives to working for their jobs.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

You must work to live, not live to work.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Especially not something like abandoning my professional standards, because that would throw the rest of my life out of balance.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.