Quotes About Work-life

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

Never put business before family.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

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

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

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.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

Sometimes we should cherish weekends because weekdays are so stressful. Maintaining balance between pleasure and pain.

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.

It's not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it's burdensome for a child to feel that she's the sole source of her mother's happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter's sake.)

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter's lacrosse game.

I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.