Michael Chiesa Quotes

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

It is important to work. It is important for my mind.

It's not that I don't take the job seriously. I'll do everything I can, humanly possible, to make myself better, but at the end of the day, if I don't relax and walk away from it knowing that I've done my stuff, then there's not much point.

I'm focused on football and my career. No one really has to doubt that. Outside, I do other things that make me happy.

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I want balance in my life.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.

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.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.