Lidia Bastianich Quotes

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

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

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

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

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

My life is basically my work.

You have your real life and then you have your 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.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

I am all for career, whether pre- or post-marriage.

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

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.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.