Quotes About Priorities

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Also because I'm always saying he could quit his job if he wanted and we'll go somewhere cheap and live on rice and beans with our kid. My husband doesn't believe me about that last bit. And why should he? Once I spent $13 on a piece of cheese.

These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

It is said of Pompey, that when he was to carry grain to Rome in time of dearth, he was in a great deal of danger by storms at sea, but, says he, 'We must go on; it is necessary that Rome should be relieved, but it is not necessary that we should live.

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

It's better to fill a Childs Belly than his Eye.

Many think the steering wheel is nothing more than a handy place to rest a laptop. Going round a corner at more than 2mph would cause your bucket of coffee to fall over. So why bother?

suggest that the millennial generation, deeply affected by the Great Recession and a stagnant global economy, has begun to shift its psychic priorities from material success to living a meaningful existence.

Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him. We tend to make our first priority the gaining of relief from our feelings of heartache or disappointment or frustration. This

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6: 34).

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda.

There are things more worthy of our devotion than our own desires.

work, school, home, and

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Promoting short-termism. Measured performance encourages what Robert K. Merton called "the imperious immediacy of interests … where the actor's paramount concern with the foreseen immediate consequences excludes consideration of further or other consequences."3 In short, advancing short-term goals at the expense of long-range considerations.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."7) Most organizations have multiple purposes, and that which is measured and rewarded tends to become the focus of attention, at the expense of other essential goals. Similarly, many jobs have multiple facets, and measuring only a few aspects creates incentives to neglect the rest.

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See, being a grown-up is all about priorities, Typo. It's all about deciding what's important to you, because it can't all be. You can't be a grown-up and a perfect person at the same time.' 'What do you know about it? You're sixteen years old.' 'I was raised by grown-ups. I know more about grown-ups than I ever wanted to know.