I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.