Quotes About Priorities

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

Lots of girls don't notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don't remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don't become upset that the boyfriend isn't interested.