Quotes About Priorities

Why are we only considered successful if we can juggle family with a demanding career?

I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

I don't think, 'Oh gosh, I won't be quite there and I won't be as successful as I want to be unless I'm juggling a couple of kids, a marriage and a career.'

We really just fit our work in and around the family's needs. I'm not juggling it all brilliantly, I'm doing my best.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

It's hard enough juggling one cricket schedule with three formats let alone when my wife plays cricket on a completely different schedule as well. Something I take into consideration heavily is being able to spend time together.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

It took me until my 40s to realize the five essential areas that are important to at least have a real dating chance. Obviously, beyond the physical compatibility, which is where we all start in junior high school, I think that intellectual compatibility and spiritual compatibility, emotional intelligence, and financial compatibility are important.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

I love the game just as much as anybody else. But at the same time, I also understand that life is more than football, too. People might get that misconstrued sometimes, too, that I don't care because I'm not die-hard football, eat, sleep and drink it all day and all night.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.

I love being a mom. It's my favorite thing. If I had to give up everything and just be a mom, I would.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I think I take my job seriously, but I enjoy my life and I enjoy my friends, and I never really allowed myself to do that before. So I just kind of want to party with everyone.

I actually just keep things very professional. I don't need acceptance from anyone but God, so that's just kind of where I focus it all.

My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I come home from work and I have a six-year-old I have to cook for, so to be completely honest with you I mostly listen to, well, Justin Bieber.

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.