May Sarton Quotes

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

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

A busy life is a wasted life.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

Life is more important than architecture.

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.