Adrian Tomine Quotes

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.

Marriage is a lot more challenging when you have a demanding career.

At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

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.

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.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

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

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

It's hard having kids. It's hard having a job. It's hard having a relationship - for anybody.

Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.