Quotes About Priorities

No one has told Jon's wife that he and I were once in love, I suppose? Holly shook her head. I'd rather they didn't, then. of course not, my dear. I'll see to it. The child's nice, I think. Nice, said Fleur, but not important.

No me hables de política-le decía el coronel-Nuestro asunto es vender pescaditos

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.

I want to score more goals, to play more games, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that the team wins. The other things come with that.

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

For too many families in St. Louis and across the country, the high cost of energy means having to choose between keeping the heat on in the winter or buying groceries. I, myself, have had to make that choice.

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.

I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

I understand my job and what the job is and what has to be done basketball wise. I do that 24/7 and it's a huge priority for me, but I cannot be in this job and not try to affect the youth of Africa, or the youth around the world, even. Help other people in some kind of way.

I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.