Quotes About Prioritization

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.

We think we can't become a minimalist until our lives have settled down. But it's actually the other way around; we won't be able to settle down until we're living a minimalist life.

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

If we were to find a drummer that we were comfortable with and who we felt could really become a part of what we're about, it'd be great. But would we ever rush to find a guy just get back on the road? No. I think we'd rather go down with the ship.

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.

Away from shooting, well, I always want to spend time with my family and being at home.

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.

My kids can't eat awards.

Nightwish is my band, and so is Revamp. They both get my 100 percent, which is why I also cannot do them both at the same time. They're both my babies.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

I do try to schedule out the week and I do make sure that when I get home, I'm done. That's when my emails can get really backed up because when I get home I need to be totally present for the kids.

If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.