Work Life Balance Quotes

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

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.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

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.

I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

I have a life outside the arenas.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid.I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.