Quotes About Priorities

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record

excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out

change?" Liz asked plaintively. They never saw him anymore, he was either at sports, at school, or at his girlfriend's. Ever since he'd gotten his driver's license, she felt as though he only slept there.

abandoned their mother for the gorgeous girl who had shared

life as a young entrepreneur, Ben had no time to come home. After he sold the business and started a second one, he was even busier. He had a knack for discovering a need that no one else had thought of, and capitalizing on it. Married now, at thirty-five, with three children of his own, Willie, Charlie, and Olive, six, five, and three, he rarely came to New York, and stayed at a hotel when he did.

suggest dinner again before he left her at the gallery and drove back to St. Paul de Vence. He liked her, but his life didn't hang on whether he had dinner with her.

All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?

But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.

But besides I haven't the time: I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for." I kissed her.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Sir," James asked, "what are we going to do?" "We're going to look for water," said Alf. "And food?" said Tubby Ted. "Water first," said Alf. "We can go days without food." "We can what?" Tubby Ted shouted.

In the end, all that really matters—all you really have—is the people you love. Not your job, not your career, not your awards, not your money, not your stuff. Just your people.

Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart.

This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing. This will mean success for me, them, our family, our lineage. She would not pursue this. She would not subject her children to this. They would not seek these specious things, no. It was only about making them loved in a moment in the sun.

Running a business murders your ability to be the kind of friend people expect or deserve. Days and weeks go by and there can be no keeping up. Her best friends were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

you don't manage priorities—you have them.