Quotes About Priorities

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.

I just never had time to follow sports. When you're working as often as I was, eight shows a week, you just don't have time to develop interests outside of the theatre.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

People don't see how hard you work. People just read the stuff on Twitter. They ask why I wasn't on the range all weekend instead of being at Monaco. You know what? You have to have some balance.

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Obviously you've got to take some time to go out, but just not every weekend!

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker if I didn't go.

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.