Quotes About Juggling

#1. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#2. The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.

Jennifer Palmieri

#3. Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ray Bradbury

#4. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

Caspar David Friedrich

#5. Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

Julie Klausner

#6. Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Khalil Gibran

#7. Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act.

Tom Robbins

#9. Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching.

Gary Keller

#10. For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

Willow Bay

#11. Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

Deborah Blake

#12. Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out an incredible juggling act. I refer to it as juggling cats with vertigo, and the cats don't have vertigo, but the juggler has vertigo.

Jeph Loeb

#13. So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

Christian Bale

#14. Diabetes sucked. It was a blindfold juggling act between insulin, diet and exercise, and it ended with your last breath. Irritated

Toni Anderson

#15. The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.

Markus Zusak

#16. The world cannot be governed without juggling.

John Selden

#17. DESIREE: Don't forget, Madame, that love is a perpetual juggling of three balls. Their names are heart, word and sex. How easily these three balls can be juggled, and how easily one of them can be dropped.

Ingmar Bergman

#18. Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Barbara Walters

#19. People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

Dean Bakopoulos

#20. I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Patrick Dempsey

#21. The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

Daniel Libeskind

#22. My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will never come down, however richly deserved.

Mark Lawrence

#23. We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.

Simon Cowell

#24. Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

Christina Aguilera

#25. Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We push those limits. If a circus is an escape, Fire said, a sideshow is a confrontation.

Chris Abani

#26. The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

Jennifer Granholm

#27. Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

Caroline Hanson

#28. Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Deborah Tannen

#29. Mobile isn't just a media channel, it's her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.

Tina Sharkey

#30. Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Maureen Johnson

#31. The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

Karl Jaspers

#32. 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.

Nita Ambani

#33. I wandered the sidewalk watching all the street performers doing their juggling acts, playing their musical instruments, busting their asses to avoid work. I liked that. But I wanted to tell them there were easier ways to avoid work, like cab driving.

Gary Reilly

#34. Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

Garth Nix

#35. Would you look at that," [Erin[ said. "It's amazing how much better this song sounds without a fucking juggling break in the middle of it.

Goldy Moldavsky

#36. Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

Carl Honore

#37. I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.

Joel Edgerton

#38. I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

#39. New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time ... It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

John Lindsay

#40. When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#41. Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

Jenna Fischer

#42. Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#43. It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

Louise Jameson

#44. Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.

Kelly Price

#45. I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Philippe Petit

#46. All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Jojo Moyes

#47. Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Evelyn Waugh

#48. Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

John Selden

#49. You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

Carol Bartz

#50. We are overeducated pharmacy clerks (with doctorate degrees) answering the phone, running the cash register, ringing up donuts and dish soap while juggling 10 or more drug related issues per minute with our one technician yelling Override!

Dennis Miller

#51. Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

Ali Landry

#52. Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Lord Byron

#53. [She] was juggling a lot of crap. And sh it is incredibly difficult to juggle. No matter how hard you try, it still falls apart and slips through your fingers, and even when you're managing to keep it aloft, it still stinks.

Amy Harmon

#54. Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

Steve Martin

#55. Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

James Cameron

#56. My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

Michael Jackson

#57. And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

William Shakespeare

#58. Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#59. Drinking and driving is safer than either drinking or driving - and no one has ever died drinking, driving and juggling.

Lee Mack

#60. And yeah, this is definitely not Portland, since even though I'm in a city, and even though it's very damp out, I don't see any mountains in the distance or anybody riding a tall bike while juggling.

BikeSnobNYC

#61. Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

Michael Moschen

#62. But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.

Sam Taylor

#63. Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.

Kristen Schaal

#64. There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Tom Robbins

#65. I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

Joshua Bell

#66. As we passed a bloke playing a saxophone underneath one of the arches, he put down the sax and started doing a juggling thing with his hands. It was a bit peculiar, though, because, as I said to Jas, He hasn't got any balls.

Louise Rennison

#67. The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

Kerry Bishe

#68. I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

Mitch Hedberg

#69. For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

Kourtney Kardashian

#70. At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

Saffron Aldridge

#71. University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#72. Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.
From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

Rivera Sun

#73. I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

Steve Martin

#74. There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

Steve Martin

#75. Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray

#76. The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

Brooke Burke

#77. I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Michael Moschen

#78. Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Stephen King

#79. I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.

Nancy Travis

#80. Why do you have to do all this after attaining a jhana? Jhana is like a juggling act. You keep things suspended in the air or balanced. Then you drop them. Then you start over.

Henepola Gunaratana

#81. From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.

Jay Woodman

#82. Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

Allison Pearson

#83. For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

Julia Garner

#84. I'm dedicating my time to going on tour and basically juggling music, modeling, and being a mother. Being a mother is obviously the most important.

Karen Elson

#85. The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

Kelly Wearstler

#86. I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.

Stefanie Schneider

#87. I look at it somewhat as a way - when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you're not looking at your hands, you're looking at where the balls are, or you're looking at the audience.

Michael Moschen

#88. I know you're capable of juggling the entire world on your shoulders, but you don't have to do it alone. Do it with me. Marry Me.

Jaci Burton

#89. I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Cheryl Strayed

#90. I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

Kenny Chesney

#91. Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

Michael Moschen

#92. It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

Tinsel Korey

#93. I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

Kirstie Alley

#94. He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

Candace Bushnell

#95. I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

#96. I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.

Ruta Sepetys

#97. JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.

Pat Murphy

#98. Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

Robin Williams

#99. As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

Philippe Petit

#100. The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

Amy Grant