Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

My life is basically my work.

My job means I work late.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

My life is very much consumed with work.

In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Some people like to play golf; I like to come to work.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

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

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

I like that I make toys.

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

There will be time enough some day to work less.

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.