Prioritizing Quotes

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

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.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

In your early 20s, it was maybe acceptable to have a friend who was taking all of your time and energy and exhausting you and always a drama. When you're in your 30s, or you're starting to have babies, you just can't put up with it anymore, and that's okay, because I think your priorities shift.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

Do I appear to you to have come to a wrong decision, if I devote that time to philosophy, which I otherwise should have spent at the loom?

I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

As much as possible, I put my family first.

I like to go out and have fun with my friends. I have family, too, so why can't I go out to clubs? I can, and I will.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.