Quotes About Work-life

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

It's not worth trading sleep for a few extra hours at the office. Not only will it make you exhausted, it'll literally make you stupid

The same thing is true with weekday nights. If work can claim hours after 5:00 p.m., then life should be able to claim hours before 5:00 p.m. Balance, remember. Give and take.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.

Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to make up for intellectual laziness with brute force. This results in inelegant solutions.

Most of them have desktop computers rather than laptops, which makes it easier to separate their real-world and digital lives;

How we spend out non-working hours determines very largely how capably or incapably we spend our working hours.

I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

People have different passions, people have hobbies, people have lives outside their job, and nowadays it seems like the only thing we are allowed to do is train and play football.

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I mean, something has to give. You can have it all at work, you can have it all at home, but you can't have it all completely combined.

Girls are having babies when they are younger and combining kids with work. I don't know if it's always been there or if I'm just more aware because I'm in this situation.

I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.

It's hard to balance work-life commitments and sometimes you feel you're not doing anything particularly well.

I get asked all the time how much sleep I get. That's what happens when you write a book called 'The Sleep Revolution,' travel around the world talking about it, and found a company committed to ending our global burnout crisis.

When it's complicated at family level, that can stop you from being at ease in your job.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Whether your job puts you in the public eye or not, being able to leave your work at work and come home to a different pace of life seems to me not only logical, but sustainable.