Quotes About Work-life

At a certain point, women have to decide how much they want their career versus having a family and spending time with family.

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

In life, we see evidence of leaky containers all the time. They are the hard-charging, aggressive personalities who keep pushing themselves for the bigger paycheck at the expense of health, family, relationships and peace of mind. By the time they realize the frantic rush does not work, their container of life is already broken into pieces. By then, it is too late.

We do all of our emails and stuff during the car journey back, as we live an hour outside of London. Then when we're home, we're home and that's it.

Our focus has been on having Accenture be a place where you can be successful as an employee at work and also at home.

At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.

We've found that employees who live full, happy lives tend to be the most effective contributors.

My kids, my health and my job are all equally important.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I feel like the days that I do work in the week I make really busy, so that the rest of the days when I'm at home with my little girl are chilled. That's my most important job.

I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.

I work, I have three kids, a husband and a house to run. I dont have the luxury of working out every day.

Doing films and TV together becomes difficult to manage when you have too many things in your hand.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.