Quotes About Priorities

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

Ask only whether you are living your values, not whether the boxes are ticked.

Why are you all reading? I don't understand this reading business when there is so much fucking to be done.

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

You're willing to miss the finals... for me?" "I attacked a van for you." "But that didn't interfere with your schedule.

You cry at a movie but not about your brother?

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.