William Barclay Quotes

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

Money shouldn't be the driver for where you spend your time.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!