Jonathan Sacks Quotes

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.

The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.

Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.

It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

It's important to spend some time with your family. You've got to get the right balance. If it's all darts, you'll then just burn out.

I think, as human beings, we need some balance in our life, right?

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.