Mirai Nagasu Quotes

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.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else - it's challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it's no different than anyone else's life.

Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.

I am trying to prioritize and keep everything in balance, which for me is not easy.

Juggling your personal life, your social life, and your work is hard, especially when you're in school like I am, but I think it's worth it.

Time management is surely the most critical aspect of acing multiple arenas: home, work, and family.

My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

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

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.