Quotes About Priorities

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. MATTHEW 19:29

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Annette liebt über alles diese Großmutter, die reich ist nicht an Gütern und gebildet nicht an Lektüren.

It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.

This crisis had forced me to confront what was most important to me, rather than what I was conditioned to want, or perhaps what I had conditioned myself to want.

Another way to frame the issue is that leaning in when you have significant caregiving responsibilities requires an intensive support structure at home and lots of flexibility at work. Think about simple physics. Imagine a tree leaning over the water

what you value and what someone else values will be different. And your goals and values will inform your preferences for various outcomes. That means that how much you prefer a particular outcome relative to other possibilities will naturally be different from another person's preference for the same outcome relative to other possibilities.

Une adresse et de l'argent, cétait les seules choses au monde dont j'avais besoin à ce mont-là.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

There are values embedded in the technology we use, and as we scroll and tap we often unthinkingly adopt these priorities as our own.

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, ìA man can live without art, but not without culture.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

Before I had my first child, I thought women had to decide between being a mom and a fulfilling, successful professional life. I was wrong. Very wrong.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.