Quotes About Work-life

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

Casper] has an interesting origin story.. "We noticed that everyone was drinking green juice and working at standing desks to stay healthy and increase productivity, yet sleep was something that everyone sacrificed..Even worse: they bragged about how little they slept.

Being qualified means I can spend a bit more time at home.

A lot of people like to ask me, 'Ali, how on earth do you balance family and career?' Men never get asked that question. Because they don't.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

I think when you're done with work, you go home.

I do my acting job and then get out on the golf course as quickly as I can.

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

It probably would be wiser, from a time-management standpoint, if I hired a crew to take care of the farm so I could get a little more rest. But the thing is, when I start my morning out there, I'm more productive for the rest of the day.

Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let's stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

I have this wonderful schedule where I work full-time and also get to be a full-time mom.