Unbalanced Priorities Quotes

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

The military budget got out of control and the tax cuts were helping the wealthy …. President Reagan was less and less interested in what I had to say

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

People think sport is life and death - it's not.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

This is a place where trivial issues get debated passionately and important ones not at all.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.