Family Work Quotes

My whole family was in 'Into the West' as a pioneer family; they're in the audience in 'The Great Debaters.' My family's been getting a lot of work off me!

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.

I think balancing work and family takes constant adjustment. Its not something you can say you've accomplished and move on.

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.

The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

I say this all the time, but when I go to bed at the end of the day, and I put my head down on the pillow, I really feel such a sense of satisfaction, and I'm so proud of my kids that they have this amazing work ethic, and we get to work with each other every day, so it doesn't get any better than that.

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Entire families work for Xerox.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

Mum and Dad grew vegetables and every day it would be beans for dinner and we'd have to go and pick them, and weed and stuff. If you wanted your pocket money you did your chores.