Quotes About Priorities

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world. Obesity

We are researching and developing human abilities mainly according to the immediate needs of the economic and political system, rather than according to our own long-term needs as conscious beings.

And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren't you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting and fornicating?

St Paul and St Augustine knew perfectly well that if you asked people about it, most of them would prefer to have sex than pray to God.

El sistema económico me presiona para que expanda y diversifique mi cartera de valores, pero me da cero incentivos para expandir y diversificar mi compasión.

Like a government diverting money from defense to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.

In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally, minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

Al igual que un gobierno que reduce el presupuesto de defensa para aumentar el de educación, los humanos desviaron energía desde los bíceps a las neuronas. No

Una revolución real exige, tarde o temprano, sacrificios que las empresas, sus empleados y sus accionistas no están dispuestos a hacer.

However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

I don't want to live— I want to love first, and live…incidentally.

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

My family is more important than my party.

Dragostea are multe chipuri, uneori e rupt? cu totul de via??, ca un zmeu f?r? sfoar?, È™tii c? el pluteÈ™te în aer, dar n-o s? încerci s? te È›ii de el, ca s? nu-È›i scape alte lucruri, mai importante pentru tine.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

As God-appointed managers, we acknowledge that our money (and the skills God gave us to earn money) is the Lord's, and our first question is, Lord, how can I use this in a way that pleases You? If we ask that question often enough, we may change some of our spending habits, and we might devote more of our resources to the things that matter most to God.

Money isn't everything , but it's right up there with oxygen.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." —Christian Furchtegott Gellert