Katherine Heigl Quotes

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

I believe we are built to have thriving personal lives, and I think we're built to have thriving professional lives. Where the error occurs is when one becomes secondary to the other.

There are many things that I value, and many of them have nothing to do with my salary.

I don't think you should want everything at work, because home life is so important, and much more nourishing for your soul. One day work will end.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I don't want only a career.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

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

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

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.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.