Quotes About Priorities

the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

I wasn't someone who needed an infant. It wasn't important to me to make bottles or see first steps or hear first words. Kindergarten, grade school....I didn't need to do any of that. I wanted to be a father, but being a father is about a lifetime of parenting, not just little-kid stuff.

She prefers books to jewels and saris. She believes as I do.

You will have a wife, and children of your own, and they will want to be driven to different places at the same time. No matter how kind they are, one day they will complain about visiting your mother, and you will get tired of it too...You will miss one day, and another, and then she will have to drag herself onto a bus just to get herself a bag of lozenges.

In the end the boy had died one evening in his mother's arms, his limbs burning with fever, but then there was the funeral to pay for, and the other children who were born soon enough, and the newer, bigger house, and the good schools and tutors, and the fine shoes and the television, and the countless other ways he tried to console his wife and to keep her from crying in her sleep, and so when the doctor offered to pay him twice as much as he earned at the grammar school, he accepted.

She prefers books to jewels and saris.

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.

I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.