Quotes About Priorities

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Chances are that whatever that you are worried about—be it a person or a thing—isn't worried about you.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.