Quotes About Priorities

My family doesn't know what vacations are, man.

I have always been someone who has put life and heart before work. I have taken time off and gone for vacations.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

Life is short, tomorrow's not promised, so to be there with my kids, and do things with them, and go on family vacations - this is more valuable than anything.

Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

Did I really want to teach my children that a list of successes is the most valuable legacy to leave behind? I absolutely did not.

President Obama believes getting along is more valuable than standing firm for U.S. interests.

No parent should have to choose between their job and caring for their child, and no person should miss valuable moments with their loved ones because of work.

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

When I had to go to school and could no longer travel to be with her on the set, she gave up her career. She felt the most valuable thing was family.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.