Quotes About Priorities

People would be happier, and in the long run wealthier, if they bought basic, functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans in particular spend almost everything they have—and sometimes more—on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.

People who report the greatest interest in attaining money, fame, or beauty are consistently found to be less happy, and even less healthy, than those who pursue less materialistic goals.

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

A man with a sense of humor. Women claim that's important. It is if there's also money and a functional penis. Enough money, eliminate the penis.

Childhood does not exist to serve the national economy. In a healthy nation, it should be the other way around.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.

La humanidad es lo primero. Siempre. La política y la religión, aunque valiosas, tienen una importancia secundaria. Si no trabajamos juntos para conservar la vida, para dignificarla y mantenerla fuera de peligro, entonces no tenemos nada por lo que luchar».

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. Orson Welles

I have begun looking for sources of joy elsewhere, and dialing back my career's presence in my mind.

I think there must be more to life than answering emails at midnight and five in the morning.

In my forties, I felt the attenuation of my ambition." Meaning what? "It means that the worldly ambitions that I might have had, I increasingly see as distractions from the life I really want to live.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

I think about making a list of all the things I need to tell people before it's too late.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.

We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Quien tiene dos mujeres pierde el alma, quien tiene dos casas pierde la razón.»

If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.