Quotes About Priorities

You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

I suppose if you make enough money with one album, you can relax the rest of your life. I would rather go for smaller and stronger successes.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.

Do I want to walk the rest of my life? Do I want to not be in pain? It just sucks because I have this true battle going on in my head, and everyone keeps telling me you gotta put your health first, but there's so much of me that wants to put my career first.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

It's easy to let your family suffer for your work. Many of us do this because we see our jobs as a means of maintaining our families. We have thoughts such as 'I need to make more money so that my kids can go to college debt-free.'

A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.

I didn't end her career. She chose to have children, then to make the simple choice that everyone should make really. You can't be a movie star and have children and not have one of the two suffer.

My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.