Debra Stephenson Quotes

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You've got to balance things out.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

My missus has had to put up with me boxing. I'll be able to spend some better time with them and not always have to put boxing first. So that's good for me. I'll enjoy that part of life.

I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

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 always separated sports and my personal life.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.