Quotes About Priorities

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.

I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.

I get a bit overwhelmed by the number of shows I haven't seen, that are still on my bucket list.

Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.

Although your staff may be exposed to the message "work longer and harder" while they're at the office, they're getting a very different message at home. The message at home is, "Life is passing you by. Your laundry is piling up in the closet, your babies are uncuddled, your spouse is starting to look elsewhere. There is only one time around on this merry-go-round called life, only one shot at the brass ring. And if you use your life up on C++ . . .

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life. Sigmund

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don't worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

Money can't buy love but it can sure buy a nice frickin mattress.

Money will trump morals the majority of time.

Personally I don't care to watch a bunch of millionaires throw balls at each other.

Some people care more about that happened a 100 thousand years ago than they care where they will be in 100 years from now.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.