Quotes About Priorities

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

The older I get and the harder it is to maintain a six pack, the more I wish I wore a tactical vest and cargo pants like Roman Reigns.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.

I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

For me, I may have titles like CEO, director or vice chairman but the best title for me is 'working mother.'

My hobbies hardly leave me time for work, or vice versa.

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.

At the 'Vanity Fair' New Establishment Summit, I asked Alibaba CEO Mike Evans - who has nine kids! - how he does it, as well as Didi President Jean Liu, a mother of three. Evans said he couldn't do work well without the support of his family and vice versa.

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

You totally can have it all if you want it all. And there's nothing wrong with wanting it all. But also, there's nothing wrong with not having it all if you want a career rather than kids, or vice versa.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

I would love to take care of myself and look like Victoria Beckham every time I leave the house. But for me that is not realistic.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.

You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.

I used to play video games and all that, but I don't really play video games that much.

I wouldn't say I would have won a lot more tournaments if it wasn't for video games but I think I would have given myself more opportunities to go further in other events.