Lorene Scafaria Quotes

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life.

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Cricket was a splendid chapter of my life; indeed, it made me what I am today. However, cricket alone isn't the only flavour of life. Sometimes, indeed, we tend to take sports too seriously and life too casually.

I think we all get a bit bogged down in our lives and our own careers and we have to take a step back and get a sense of proportion and perspective on things.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I want to be a good cricketer, but I am a person first and a cricketer second. I won't always be a cricketer, but I will always be a person.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

Always keep things in perspective.

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.