Quotes About Priorities

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I still have my life outside of Formula One. It has always been the same.

I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame.

Made a fortune, made millions but it's not everything.

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don't see that happening.

I'm not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in dinner, sit at home and get into it.

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I believe in friendship over money and that's how I lost a lot.

The more professional opportunities came my way, the more time I spent away from my friends - the people I truly cared about. Maintaining friendships with people to talk to, depend on and enjoy takes time.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.

League was everything to me, I put that in front of God, and He took me away from that to go to AFL.

You know, 'You should have frozen your eggs at 20.' Well, who's thinking about that at 20?