Quotes About Priorities

As an actor, you tend to have to be a bit of a people-pleaser, and I think that I just don't really care about that so much any more.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

I'm a person who sometimes tends to worry too much about cricket. Previously I would think about the game for probably 15 hours, but now with the presence of my wife it has come down to ten hours, and I would like to bring that down to about nine.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.

I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

We have decided that now is the time for me to focus intently on my top priority, my family, as Elizabeth and I raise our two young children. To that end, I will not seek reelection to a third term.

We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.