Competing Demands Quotes

Communities and constituencies do not always have aligned interests.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

You can't please God and please man at the same time. It's impossible; you can't do it. You've got to choose one.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

You know, unfortunately I'm only one person. I can't really be in two places at one time and the amount of focus that I need to put into Slipknot makes it really difficult for me to be on tour with Stone Sour.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.