Diane Lane Quotes

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

My life is very much consumed with work.

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

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

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

It's hard separating work from personal life.

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

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

The time away from the family is the hardest part of the job. I have a little apartment in D.C., and I have to tell you, I'm happy when I get to go home to Georgia. My wife and I are also talking about whether we can afford the apartment or not. If not, I guess I'd sleep in my office like a lot of my colleagues do.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

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

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.