Quotes About Priorities

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

I hope when I take my last breath I haven't got any regrets, because I am making up for lost time with my family.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

I have done fewer films than I should have. No regrets. I wanted to be at home.

One of my major regrets was that period in my life where I wasn't present in my kids' life. I was in another world.

But would I give up the women and nights out for another year at United? Would that make me happy? Would that make me the person I am today? I'm not sure. I have no regrets. I went to United to win things and I achieved that.

Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.

Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.

I'm a professional footballer and, to me, playing regularly is the most important thing; money is secondary.

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that's what granola bars are for.