Quotes About Priorities

Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Life is too short for chess.

An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

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.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.