Quotes About Prioritization

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.

I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.