Quotes About Prioritization

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium.

I am a far better grandmother than I was a mother. My daughters would back me up on this. As a mother I was busy, preoccupied and obsessive about John and my life with him. My children got overlooked. But my grandchildren never get overlooked.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

I think people expect when you have a new Premier that it's that Premier's prerogative to look at everything on the table and say, 'Well I'm the leader now. What do I want to take forward and what don't I?'

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

President Trump has demonstrated to Russia that he means what he says about putting 'America First.'

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

I am a dancer first. That is why I don't accept all roles that come my way.

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.

I'm going to balance my schedule so I'm still getting everything I need and just making sure I'm happy really, because when you're happy it is easier to play darts.

I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

I cannot say no for anything to my daughter.

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.