Quotes About Priorities

It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.

Você precisa criar sua própria estratégia pessoal para menos confusão, para parar de pensar que precisa gastar dinheiro que não possui em coisas que não precisa para impressionar pessoas que nem gosta.

Desperate for beer, they ignored the abundant freshwater. Even the Bible advised against drinking water in Saint Paul's epistle to Timothy: "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and for thine own infirmities."27

Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church," wrote the British captain Thomas Walduck in 1708. "The first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing the English do, be it in the most remote part of the world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house.

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.

If you do TV, sign a proper daily soap, then you won't be able to do anything.

Doing a daily show with Aamir will not make me miss Aamir. So no daily soaps with my husband.

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

Soccer was actually my first love, but eventually, basketball took that over.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.

I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.

When my daughter Dixie gets out of school, I take her to ballet, soccer, or karate. Or if it's a free afternoon, we might bake together. I love our time together. There is nothing more important in my life than making her happy.

I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.

A social life is just as important to me as my work life because I think if you have a healthy balance of the two, you'll be really happy.

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.

Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

We're a much more touchy-feely, hands-on generation than our fathers but juggling work, family and social life and trying to be romantic and keep yourself fit is really hard. I want to be the perfect dad but you can't be the perfect dad unless you compromise elsewhere.