"You have this idea that you'd better..." - Quote by Robin Williams
You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.
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“Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.”
“Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.”
“The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.”
More on Work Life Balance
“Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.”
“I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.”
“When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.”
More on Career
“Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.”
“The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.”
“I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.”