Quotes About Priorities

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.

If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together.

After I had my youngest son,I took time for him and just spent more time with my family. But, I know it's time to get back to work. I am working on new music.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.