Work And Life Balance Quotes

• 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.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Integrity, Glasses

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• No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Office, Wish, Work Life Balance

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• Don’t have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

  Don Tapscott

  Fun, Balance, Trying

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Life, Running, Lying

  "Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too" by Laura Donovan, mashable.com. April 05, 2012.

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Careers, Decision, Balance

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• Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

  Evan Williams

  Sleep, Exercise, Long

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• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "No Man is an Island".

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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  A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Family Love, Unity

  "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

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• Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of "having it all fatigue": women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Wrestling, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  Samantha Stosur

  Games, Intense Training, Tennis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

  Brad Feld

  Balance, Amy, Changing Your Life

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• You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

  Ellen Lupton

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Successful, Balance And Harmony, Joy

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Children, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Balance, Definitions, Week

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• I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.

  Maria Bamford

  Thinking, Vacation, Phones

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• Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mistake, Balance, Want

  Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

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• To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Mistake, Writing

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

  Sam Altman

  Reality, Choices, Balance

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Life, Success, Peace

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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