A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.
I don’t live to work; I work to live.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.
Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.