Karen Finerman Quotes

We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.

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

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

I don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

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

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

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.