Sidney Crosby Quotes

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

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.

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.

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.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

So many people ask me this, but I tell them I look forward to each day because I love what I do.

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

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

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.