Quotes About Priorities

Too often we focus more on the nice house than the happy family living in it.

For architects, towns and cities are just big display cases for their work. The fact that the place matters so much more than the building is something else they don't want to know. Making good cities is the last thing on their mind. As the heroic urbanist Jane Jacobs was heard to say, "the most cunningly ignorant people I know are architects.

over the last 16 years, we have spent trillions of dollars on wars when we could have been investing that money productively.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

What you need is a mental filtering system based on a scale of priorities and your long-term goals.

She used the closeness of death to teach her what really matters and to help her steer clear of the petty squabbles and concerns that plagued others. She used it to anchor herself in the present, to make her appreciate every moment and every encounter.

It is easy to be overwhelmed by everything that faces you in battle, where so many people are asking or telling you what to do. So many vital matters press in on you that you can lose sight of your goals and plans; suddenly you can't see the forest for the trees.

No matter how hard people try to pull you in, never let your interest in their affairs and petty squabbles go beyond the surface.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others, that is too high a price to pay.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon

If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

Shaking his head, he went back to studying the forest. Aiel or not, they were all alike in some ways. If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.