Stephen Hawking Quotes

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

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.

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

All I do is work and be with my family.

It was very clear to me early on that balancing work and family was going to be very important.

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

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

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

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.