Quotes About Work-life

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

I feel it's tough to make friend when you're always thinking about work.

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.

Maybe there is a possibility of relocating "headquarter" functions to local regions. Then the working people there will raise the birthrate and there will be better work-life balance. That will all lead into a virtuous cycle.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

While careers and making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing and nurturing human life and well-being.

I go through regular problems. It's funny - there's still two sides to me: the normal one and the work one. I feel like I'm pulling a Hannah Montana.

I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

El éxito debería llegar con una advertencia para la salud: para el adicto al trabajo y para quienes lo rodean.

The very technologies that make it hard for us to maintain healthy boundaries among domains also enable us to blend them in ways—unfathomable even a decade ago—that can render us more productive and more fulfilled.

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

Like, I'd rather tour maybe six months out of the year, instead of nine.

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

My trainer ensures I eat right and balance out in between my hectic shoot schedule.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life.