Quotes About Priorities

El dinero es el metrónomo que lleva el compás de la vida

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

qué le servirá al hombre ganar todo el mundo, si perdiere su alma?" (Mt. 16:26). En

I have a car but it's not important.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

If ministry success is our god, we are likely to take the shortest path to greater and greater "victories," but preparing and developing people is never on the shortest path.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Death tends to change people's focus and priorities—at least for a time. After the war deaths of several Bonhoeffer cousins, the younger members of the family would often lie in bed at night and talk about death and eternity. Do you spend much time thinking about eternity? Should a person concentrate on life after death, or is it better to keep one's focus solely on this life and what can be accomplished now?

Two changes manifested themselves right away: the first was a new attitude toward money, the second toward time.

It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard—at the wrong things.

Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les cons, je n'aurai plus de temps pour ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

Some will buy things, which they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for. In the end however, they find their financial assets and, even more so, their corporeal capacity, completely undermined. ( "Keeping up with the Joneses" )

Graystripe had never taken his duties as mentor seriously, he thought with a pang of worry. He had been more interested in Silverstream right from the start. Meanwhile, Fireheart himself had more or less taken over Brackenpaw's training. He enjoyed it, and he liked the serious-minded ginger tom, but he was troubled that loyalty to the Clan didn't mean more to Graystripe.

That's not true. Firestar and I never discovered what we might have meant to each other," she mewed at last. "I was alive in the forest for such a short time after he came to ThunderClan. But I know for sure"—her voice grew more intense—"that he and I could never have been mates. I was and always will be a medicine cat. That comes first, more than any cat who walks the forest, more even than Firestar.

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.