Competing Priorities Quotes

... the inherent conflict and disconnect between campaigning (promising people all that they can have) and governing (explaining to people why they won’t get it).

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

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

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.

When I'm at work, I want to be with my daughter, and when I'm with my daughter, I probably should be working, and it just is what it is.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

It's like I had two things pulling at me: you want to be a fighter, and you have problems. So I couldn't be a fighter, and I wasn't solving any problems.

It's kinda hard to date as an artist because you're all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending on what they're doing.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.