Quotes About Work-life

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

The only thing that may make me different from other people is I have passionate interests outside of work.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

When I'm working out and eating healthily, it's easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

'Strictly' has taught me that activity outside work is good for my mental health.

When I first started working, I thought I would have a career in my 20s and a family in my 30s. But when I got pregnant with my first, I was really just hitting my stride professionally. That's when I realized it wasn't an either/or decision.

If you want to have high-powered career women who have families, you need to provide options for them in terms of childcare.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

When I had my daughter, I'd been chugging along in my career and had great mentors and success, but it was the first time it hit me that I really loved working and having that professional outlet.