Quotes About Priorities

It's hard to put your heart into things when you feel you're being pulled in so many different directions and people are taking advantage of you.

Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

I have talked to my husband and asked him to come back and be with me more. He likes to stay in Britain and do what he likes to do.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

'Iraivi' is about women, men, and their priorities. It talks about women's freedom, how men look at it, and how women use it. It's neither preachy, nor is it about women's empowerment.

Money talks at the end of the day.

'So Much More Than This' is about just getting tangled up in all of the drama and stuff that really does not matter and probably won't matter in, like, three months.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions" (Luke 12:15).

Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.

Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Look on the bright side. You didn't bleed all over my clean floor," Kasabian says. "Your floor was always my utmost concern.

JESSE I have a time machine up in my room. I've come to save you just like I said I would. CELINE Save me from what? JESSE Save you from being blinded by all the little bullshit of life.

Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets?

I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.