Quotes About Prioritization

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

I typically have one backpack, my everyday carry.

Running a marathon was important to me, so I found time to train for it. Writing books is also important to me, so you know what? I carve out the time.

I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.

If you want to do well you have to sacrifice certain things.

You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

It's really hard to get enough sleep, so I try to end my days by 9 P.M. so my husband and I have time to watch TV, chat, and then I like to read for at least half an hour before bed, but we have a lot of events, and there are places to go and people to talk to.

After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance.

If you want to get anywhere in life, you have to make choices.

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

You can't say that I am choosy. You can say that I work in few films at a time.

I chose basketball over film.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power.

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn't do.

I write out my schedule for the week ahead on a white board. I step back. I take a second to look at it - to evaluate what each commitment means to me and my family. I ask myself, 'Will my participation have an impact? Is my attendance essential to the success of the event or to the person I'm supporting, even if I know I won't be present?'

If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

I make sure that I spend quality time with my family.