Quotes About Priorities

Vanity does not pay the bills.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

Like everyone else, I have a lot of things I'd like to do that I'll probably never get around to. But for the most part, I live day to day.

When you become a father, everything changes.

You have kids and everything changes, and I guess before I had my kids I could do what I wanted and go where I wanted.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

We all can't stay busy doing exactly what we want to do.

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

Eating right and exercising is more important than what you put on your face.

There is an expectation that if you do sport, any sport, you should never have a life outside that. People expect you to just train, play, train. But that's not me.

There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband.

I don't want to work in just any movie for money. I do films in seven languages so I am pretty busy to be out of work.