Quotes About Priorities

Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy? Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy? What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one?

So I had an operation. So what? If I die, I die. I'm more interested in my music.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

I don't feel comfortable without certain things. I always want some money in my pocket to do whatever I want. Even if it's something like I want to eat food that costs more than what I got.

For some reason, I don't spend enough time getting to see my family because I'm always touring or working or whatnot.

I used to be good at clothes shopping and whatnot - at least ,I think I was! - but at some point after two kids and a career that worked out better than I ever could have imagined, I looked up from my desk and realized that I wore the same three t-shirts and 15-year-old jeans every day.

I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.

As soon as I became a mom, my birthday stopped having any meaning whatsoever.

I know there is an opportunity to make some money and have a life-changing effect on me and those things are great. I don't take those things for granted whatsoever, but my focus is really on my craft.

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.

Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

After I remarried, I moved out of India because I did not have much work in Mumbai. But whenever I visited India, I would get in touch with my sons Jessy, Jeeko, and Jaan.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.