Quotes About Priorities

There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

I'm done doing music so I can go kick it with my son.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

I can't get to the point where my brain is mush and I can barely talk, because my son's life depends on my health.

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.'

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.