Quotes About Priorities

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

There's nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There's nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

The cobbler's children go barefoot

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

Don't cast pearls before swine, as the old saying goes. And you might think that's harsh. But training your child not to sleep, and rewarding him with the antics of a creepy puppet? That's harsh too. You pick your poison, and I'll pick mine.

It's also unlikely that you're playing only one game. You have a career and friends and family members and personal projects and artistic endeavors and athletic pursuits.

sometimes, when things are not going well, it's not the world that's the cause. The cause is instead that which is currently most valued, subjectively and personally.

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

Muita gente, minha filha, só não dá antes de casar porque não sabe que é tão bom ou porque o noivo não pede. Afinal, antes ou depois, que diferença faz, me diga?

Tua madre è un vecchio fossile, non ha ancora capito che nella vita quel che conta è l'amore, l'amicizia. IL resto è tutto paccottiglia, presunzione, non vale la pena.

Si los hombres le dedicasen a la física o a las matemáticas una cuarta parte de las horas que tardan en resolver sus líos amorosos, la ciencia avanzaría en proporciones geométricas.

proverbio árabe: "Un mediano bienestar tranquilo es preferible a la opulencia llena de preocupaciones".

el remoto proverbio árabe: "Un mediano bienestar tranquilo es preferible a la opulencia llena de preocupaciones".

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time

Let Caesar have the world, if Marcia's mine.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.