Work-Life Integration Quotes

You should not separate your life from what you do.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.

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 work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

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.

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.

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

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

If I bring my work home, it's wonderful.

As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

Rest is key. I need to get the right rest time and family time to stay refreshed. My downtime is for family activity. That's all about there is. I never switch off. Running my day-to-day golf business is a fairly busy one. There's a lot of moving parts and I'm trying to simplify it and make it easier.