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Quotes About Priorities

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
~ Ken Kesey
I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
~ Kevin Pietersen
I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.
~ Kurt Wagner
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
~ Laurence Sterne
Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.
~ LeBron James
I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.
~ Leighton Meester
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
~ Lena Dunham
My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
~ Lindsey Vonn
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.
~ Marc Almond
And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
~ Marissa Mayer
When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
~ Mark Millar
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
~ Mark Wahlberg
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
~ Martin Amis
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.
~ Martin Luther
As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.
~ Megyn Kelly
I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
~ Megyn Kelly
The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.
~ Mic Geronimo