Quotes About Priorities

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Life is all about priorities...placement,timing and handling matters!

There are times when you have lot of things to do while sometimes you wish you had!

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

He felt the room's walls solid around him. This house, his wife, his kids: that was what defined him. He sought no purchase on the world beyond these things.

So this is parenthood, he thought. You behave better than you might for the sake of your kid.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… 'Your life does change as you get older,' she told me. 'You get into what's important and what's not'.

Sometimes you need to step back and think about whats really important.. the big picture is alot more important then temporary indulgences

Sometimes what matters more in a job is not how much you earn, rather what you can save and do with the little you earn." Ashu Shamy

A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives.

how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

a large number of the Busters and Mosaics have rarely attended church, if at all. Their question for the established church is, Why should I attend your church when there are so many other things that I could be doing?

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

Fiecare valoare islamica ce mi se insuflase ma invatase ca eu sa fiu ultima in lista prioritatilor. Viata pe pamant este un test si, daca reusesti sa nu-ti acorzi importanta in viata asta, il servesti pe Allah; si astfel vei avea intaietate in viata de apoi. Cu cat iti suprimai mai mult dorintele, cu atat mai virtuos deveneai. Dar Johanna, Ellen si toti ceilalti din Olanda pareau sa creada ca era firesc sa-ti cauti fericirea pe pamant, aici si acum.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

His uncle called him every day, demanding he get into the house, no matter what he had to do. "You don't understand," he'd tried to tell Bernie. "There's this old woman who lives next door –

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.