Ory Okolloh Quotes

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I just don't believe you can have it all and be great at everything, something has to give at some point. You've got to give yourself a break sometimes.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

Lack of time is a real health killer.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.