Priority Conflict Quotes

While you're trying to save your face, you're losing your ass.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

I suppose John ought to be the center of my life, but he's not because he's out of it so much of the time.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

If I would have to sacrifice R&D investments to fulfill a goal, that would be the wrong goal to have.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

It's very disappointing if a player pulls out of a squad when he's not injured and is maybe prioritising his club.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.

School was very important. But I needed to watch basketball.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.