Edgar Degas Quotes

It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also means they aren't going well in your heart, in your soul. They're all wrapped up together.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

Life is more important than work.

Life is about being present. Sometimes your home will demand more attention, and you should be there. Sometimes your work is more demanding. But the beautiful thing when you create your life's work is that it always feels like you're on a mission.

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Now for some heartwork.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.

The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.