Quotes About Priorities

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

If there is something that you believe you would love to have in your life—such as a more fulfilling career, a life partner, or greater financial freedom—I can tell you that the reason you don't yet have it in that particular form is almost certainly that you don't truly value it enough. There

Love wasn't everything. Women weren't everything. A writer had to conserve his energies.

that office was my manuscript The Long Lost Hills. Love wasn't everything. Women weren't everything. A writer had to conserve his energies.

Adams drew back. He wanted Hannah, but he did not live for her. Making a name for himself was more important. He told her that he could not marry for years, until his practice was established. He knew that his honesty would doom the relationship, and Hannah in fact began to see others. Adams's ambition had triumphed over love.

Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - John F Kennedy

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Age before beauty,' he said to Halt. The older Ranger's eyebrow rose slightly. 'Pearl before swine,' he replied

Principle 4 I shall consider righteous acts as more necessary to life and happiness than food and drink

ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.