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Quotes About Priorities

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.
~ Shane Filan
Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
~ Sheryl Sandberg
There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.
~ Spencer Pratt
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience
~ Steve Ballmer
I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.
~ Suzanne Vega
The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.
~ Terry Gilliam
I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.
~ Tim Gunn
Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.
~ Todd G. Buchholz
I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
~ Tony Abbott
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
~ Topher Grace
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.
~ Tracy Morgan
I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.
~ Uffie
I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.
~ Viggo Mortensen
By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up.
~ Wes Fesler
I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
~ William H. Macy
It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
~ Yani Tseng
Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.
~ Zach Braff
Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do
~ Zach Braff
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
~ Zachary Knighton
I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
~ Zoe Tapper
Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
~ John C. Maxwell
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance
~ Richie Norton