Quotes About Prioritization

Sometimes on a soap, it can become about all this other stuff - the party circuit, reality shows - but I gravitated towards people who kept it all about the work.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

Proper British nannies put the child ahead of everything. They do not like to see children used as accessories, carried around in slings for the convenience of the parents' social life. They want a proper set-up, where the baby is rested and happy, not shown off to all-comers.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

It's a social life, or time to read the comment section: I prefer social life.

It's important to make your social life and your friends and family - make that a priority.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.

I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.

I think caring too much about the economics starts affecting the creative aspect of the film. That is a dangerous process for a filmmaker. He should make his film without having to worry about how much it has cost or how much it will be sold for.

I have been a soldier and a commander for many years and know how to differentiate between things - not to be busy all the time with the most sensitive matters and to give everything its due attention without having the issues that cause concern to constantly be troubling or worrisome.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

The most important thing is sleep. My mom can survive on four hours of sleep; I cannot. I need a solid eight.

I know when I'm at full capacity, and two children is full capacity for me. If I had three or four, especially as a solo parent, it's a guarantee that I would inadvertently forget to sign at least one of them up for school, or send them off with no transcripts or emergency contacts.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

I focus on my work while some people unnecessarily complicate life.

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.