Quotes About Priorities

When we say we lack time to cook -- or even time to eat -- we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.

No one is too busy to cook.

Almost every parent wants the best for their child, but they are frequently too hung up on the indignities of the past to see the real problems in front of them or to separate a child's needs from their own urges.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Styeddy, styeddy. Boyfrriend. Boyfrriends out eleven o'clock, styeddies out twelve," she pronounced sternly. Then, as if relieved at an unpleasant duty so neatly discharged, she added: "Rrule." Beguiled by the momentary vision of a procession of boyfriends tiptoeing down the stairs, shoes in hand, while steadies, single-file, marched up from eleven to twelve, I said primly: "I'm interested only in my work.

To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.

If it's a choice between selling a million Pocket Planners and getting the chance to be with you, I'll figure out some other way to get this product off the ground.

Do you remember telling me how you're willing to put up with the pressures of fame if it means you can play your music for people?' When she nodded, he said, 'Making sure my family is happy has been worth any tradeoff.

I ask Andrew if he would mind offering some advice to younger people about how to live. He thinks they should ask themselves, What are my values? How do I want to live my life? What do I care about? And then, Does my living situation feed that or does it take away from that? Oh

As a career girl in your late twenties, you have been most probably able to surround yourself with certain material assets…to which you shortly become accustomed. Will you then be eager to marry a man who cannot keep you in your customary supply of worldly goods?

Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.

Many parents aren't all that accustomed to being patient and present for their kids anymore, if only because they're simply not given the opportunity to be patient and present. Jobs get in the way. School gets in the way. After-school activities get in the way. As I have learned—as I am still learning—patience and presence are muscles that must be developed and exercised regularly.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better of life in!—in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter love in a dark corner.

I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

but we were balancing two competing concerns. If

term, I knew that politics would continue to occupy much of my time and energy.

But these experts weren't experts on human nature, it turns out: instead, they used science as a catchword for political priorities that maximized centralization.

We're instead pursuing other priorities: physical pleasure, emotional catharsis, monetary stability. All these things are important, of course, but they don't bring lasting happiness.

Mientras más estoy en tú mundo, menos puedo estar en el de él

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

Spend time, talk it out before you get married. And figure it out. Make sure your really big issues you agree on. How you're going to raise your kids. If you're going to have kids. Your religion. All this kind of stuff. What do you think about money? Your morality? All these things. The big shit. Make sure you talk this stuff out, because this is the stuff that counts, not whether or not he picks up his clothes.

To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the ultimate hypocrisy.