John Tesh Quotes

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

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

I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

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 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.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

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

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.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

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 really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

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

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

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

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.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.