Tom Perez Quotes

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

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.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.

The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

People who work in the White House work 90 to 100 hours a week…. It’s an interesting complement to family values.

The hardest thing about this industry is not working.

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

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.

It's tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.

You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

I am not a daydreamer.

That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.

For me, it's all about balancing your priorities.