Striking a Balance Quotes

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that's what I learned.

I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?

What I've tried to do is focus on either my job or being a mom, and just go really hard on that so that I can feel like I'm doing my best job at both roles.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.

On one hand, I want to be successful and give my best to everything I do, but I don't want to be too consumed by anything.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That's the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.

You don't have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

Ivanka Trump is a close friend and just a wonderful person, mother, and businesswoman. Everyone thinks she has it all, but she always stresses that there is no such thing.

It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

I have done fewer films than I should have. No regrets. I wanted to be at home.

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

I would just laugh and say, 'My dad was one of the greatest players, and I want to follow in his footsteps.' But I also want to make a name for myself. I want to be Timothy Weah, be myself, play my game, and still follow in his footsteps while I'm doing that.