Ryoko Tani Quotes

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

You want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

My dream is to have a family, hopefully while still working.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'