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Quotes About Priorities

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
~ Gemma Arterton
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
~ George Bernard Shaw
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
~ Gloria Steinem
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
~ Harold Ramis
I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.
~ Harry Hamlin
My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
~ Hayley Mills
With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!
~ Unknown
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.
~ Helen Bevington
In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.
~ Hillary Clinton
I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
~ Ian Astbury
My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family
~ J. J. Abrams
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
~ Jackie Cooper
I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.
~ James Caan
My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
~ Jane Lynch
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
~ Jay McInerney
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
~ Jeff Bridges
We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.
~ Jenna Bush
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
~ Jennifer Ehle
I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.
~ Jennifer Garner
I love being a mum but I do love to work too.
~ Jenny Frost
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
~ Jenny Offill
Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.
~ Jillian Medoff