Conflicting Priorities Quotes

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

When I came here I thought I worked for the President. But I didn’t realize that I also worked for 534 other people at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who all think that they are presidents.

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

I am going to leave this car as property of the nation. But meanwhile I shall use it myself.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

I want to complete my MBA but don't know when I will find time from my cricket schedule.

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

I didn't have any stability in my life, so I was probably a bit lost as a person. I didn't know where I fitted in professionally and I didn't really know where I fitted in with my personal life and seeing my son, and it was really confusing. I think if you have one solid, then the other one you can manage.

I was a good student. For a while, my parents did make me cope with school and films simultaneously. But after a point, this wasn't practical. I had to choose between studies and films. I chose films.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.