Whitfield Diffie Quotes

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

My life is basically my work.

I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

Life is too short to work so hard.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

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 never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

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

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.

My work is my work and my life is my life.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

A good work-life balance is, for me, the most important thing - and the biggest challenge I have.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.

Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.