Mika Brzezinski Quotes

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

It's hard to balance work and family.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.

Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You've got to balance things out.

I have no personal life.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.