Quotes About Priorities

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

There's nothing progressive about spending more on servicing your debt than on educating your children.

I hate delaying a project that's already seen so many delays, but I have to go with my instincts on what I think will be exciting and interesting, and what I think the fanbase will really want to see.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

My goal is not to get on 'Dancing With The Stars.' I can promise that.