Marie Curie Quotes

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

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.

I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

What I learned is that it's very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.

It was two different worlds: my world - cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled with me, it wasn't always easy to bridge the gap.

I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.

I strongly disagree that you can't have a happy family life and a child as well as rock n' roll.

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.

It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.

When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications. We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to 'boring' meetings.

I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.