Balancing Acts Quotes

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

It's almost negligible sleep and insane amounts of plane rides, but I'm doing it. Your body is screaming out to you to not abuse it so much, but I love what I do in my Hindi films as well as with 'Quantico,' and I want to be able to balance both.

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

We can be mothers and have careers. We can finish our education with children in tow. Is it a challenge? Yep. But women are made for challenges. We are strong enough to handle the challenges presented to us. It's what we were made to do.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year and deejays every night and still do the same day job that I do, only with more responsibility. It drives me to find a way to juggle it.

I've had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.

You have to figure out what works for you as a parent, and it's hard to do everything all at once.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I dropped out twice from a law degree because I didn't have time to do everything at once.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

There are some times when I have to take off the manager hat and be a father. And sometimes I have to take the father hat off and be a manager. And just to balance of that - and I'm not perfect so I make mistakes with that.

I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

Why can't you be both? Why can't I be on the basketball team but also be the student president?