James Taylor Quotes

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

I know what really matters in my life.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

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.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

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

There are more important things in life than boxing.

I think you learn to value the important things in life.

Everybody needs money, obviously, but that's far from being the most important thing in the world to me.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.