Quotes About Priorities

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

I am busy. That phrase is the curse of our time. We are all busy, of course, but it's regarded as a boast, a badge of honour to be busy "I'm so busy! I've got 300 emails! Admire me!" Busy, busy, busy, all the bloody time. Being busy makes it difficult to find time for adventure, difficult to find time for ourselves and for some fallow time in the wilderness.

Just finding the right balance of career, family, personal goals, personal feelings. All of that is part of life and part of growing up.

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

I think it's important to be thinking about your personal life and your family not just when you've retired but also during your career.

In my personal life, if you ask me something which I feel is important, I will talk about it. Like, if you ask me about my sons, I will talk.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

It's really important that I have a personal life.

My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

My personal life was very important for me, the people I am with, my friends, where I go.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

Everyone has a perception if you are divorced. I got so busy with work that I didn't even have the time to realize what was happening in my personal life. I had my own way of dealing with it.

Like I've always said, there's a lot that goes into being a football player that isn't the playbook and being on the field, but having everything worked out in your personal life.

I met a wonderful girl and decided to get married. And when I married, being an actor I did not think I could balance both cinema and personal life. Very difficult to do that because the cinema takes a lot out of you.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.