Quotes About Priorities

How do you determine your values? You do so by asking yourself the following question: "What's most important to me in my life that will make me happy and that will significantly enhance the quality of my life?

Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you (Matthew 6:33). Jesus is saying that the so-called "basic things" that are needed should not be of prime concern in life.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

The telephone could ring twice, Vito knew he was not going to pick it up. He would put on his leg before his trousers as he did every day on first getting up - at all events nothing good would ever again come by phone, and any way, no matter what, his leg came first.

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies.

Yet a simple ceremony in an English church, with no jewels, no brilliant company, no crown, could have made her the happiest woman in the world, providing the right man had shared that ceremony with her.

Saya memang suka pada topi-topi serta benda-benda yang cantik, tapi saya tidak boleh menggadaikan masa depan saya untuk membeli barang-barang seperti itu.

Pris dans le tourbillon narcissique de leurs succès respectifs, ils n'avaient plus guère d'énergie pour se tourner l'un vers l'autre.

She was no sworn wife, but Robin was the only man she ever loved as a husband... though not as much as her crown and thrown. The truth that tore at her breast, turning her about in circles, because he had known... he had known his love was greater than hers. Though it was not, she never could explain it rightly. No man understood, that he was not everything to the woman he loved.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

No previous generation on earth has had more competing demands for its time and attention than this one.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

With children it is often so much easier to take the path of least resistance—to let them eat that fast food they love rather than cook something healthy, to let them watch TV rather than read to them, to let them play video games rather than interact with them.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Throughout all of this, my parents did not forget my education. Not a formal education but the education that mattered. What to value. What to hold on to. What to let go of. What to fight for and what to discard. Where the traps were.