Stephen R. George Quotes

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I like to work hard and play hard.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.

I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

That is my style. I work when I feel like working.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

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.

Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work. The staying balanced, it requires you to know that the work you're doing right now is ultimately what is going to give you the sense of freedom that you're hoping to find in a more realized life.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.