Quotes About Priorities

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

If we don't know what we're supposed to be doing, we do lesser things, squandering ourselves on unworthy pursuits and trying to narcotize ourselves from the nagging feeling that life is essentially empty.

This paradox is resolved when we recognize that advances since 1970 have tended to be channeled into a narrow sphere of human activity having to do with entertainment, communications, and the collection and processing of information. For the rest of what humans care about—food, clothing, shelter, transportation, health, and working conditions both inside and outside the home—progress slowed down after 1970, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

It is senseless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death; for God wants his loved ones to get their proper rest. —Psalm 127:2

Someone said, "If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

I . . . count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.

But people only complain about something because they are committed to the value or importance of something else.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I should be just as concerned about what I consume on Monday morning as I am on Saturday night. My vows, meaning my covenants, made at baptism and in the holy temple, should and must guide me throughout the entire week.

Always in life carry this motto with you: When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything.

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I-don't-wants hold the key to your success," rich dad would say. Because I, too, do not want to fix toilets, I shop hard for a property manager who does fix toilets.

Most people would rather live within their means than expand their means.

La mayoría de las personas preferirían vivir dentro de sus medios que expandir sus medios.

the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.

Hace algún tiempo que el mundo gira en torno al dinero, ya no en torno a la historia.

he said softly. "At the present time in my life there are only two things I really care about: you and my research. And if there were some way I could make a living out of being with you, I might even forget the research.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.

Remarkable people are priority-driven. This is the secret of time mastery. Build your days around your priorities and you will play in rare air.