Quotes About Priorities

If dovetailing had to be summed up in one sentence, it would be: Look for items that are of low cost to you and high benefit to them, and vice versa. Differences in interests, priorities, beliefs, forecasts, and attitudes toward risk all make dovetailing possible. A negotiator's motto could be "Vive la différence!

Having a bottom line makes it easier to resist pressure and temptations of the moment.

His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

There certainly are some drawbacks to belonging to a busy man no matter how fine he may be as I believe you have sometimes found out.48

Gates met with Harper and urged him to shed his outside activities.

By 1910, medicine and education had emerged as the top priorities of the Rockefeller philanthropies

What really disturbed him was not so much making money but spending it.

The Rockefellers were more interested in exercise, which stressed health, than in sports, which stressed pleasure.

About to enter into his second marriage, Bill must have been drastically scaling back on first-family expenditures, albeit without disclosing the reason for the sudden urgency.

Julia would gladly have stayed for one more term and had no qualms about scrapping George Washington's precedent. "Oh, Ulys! was that kind to me?" she protested. "Was it just to me?" "Well," he replied, "I do not want to be here another four years. I do not think I could stand it." Rather than feel sympathy for her husband's plight as a profoundly overburdened president, Julia chose to feel "deeply injured.

You should never ask What do you do for a living? What is your job?". You simply practice the following eight words. How do you spend most of your time?

Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

Ever notice that when you lack sleep, things that seemed important before no longer seem to matter so much? Setting up and programming the coffeemaker so the coffee will be ready when I wake up the next day seems like a great idea at 9:00 p.m., but at 2:00 a.m.

son muchos los padres que dan por sentado que las buenas notas y las calificaciones elevadas son la mejor garantía y la clave para la felicidad futura. Pero se equivocan. Si quieres que tu hijo esté sano, sea rico y sea sabio, entonces tu prioridad no deberían ser los resultados relacionados con lo cognitivo, como las notas, sino la medida de su diligencia, con rasgos como la honestidad, la integridad y el autocontrol.

It's easy to fall away from the church, no matter the closeness to it in times past. I have done it. So have you. Grown people can do as they please. The 10:30 Sunday morning movie is even an excuse I use. So are Saturday nights that should have ended a lot earlier.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Blood is thicker than water. That's what they say. But in truth, most things are.

All I mean is that I left too much of me unfinished because I wasted too much time."--

I save my panic for small things.

Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).

Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.