Karren Brady Quotes

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

It's always agonising to separate my life as an actress and personal life. Just because I'm happy with my acting life doesn't mean I'm happy with my personal life. I'm always making an effort to balance between the two.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

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

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design.... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

If I took everything as personally as I possibly could, I wouldn't survive.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.