Quotes About Priorities

I'm short, I'm thin, I'm not rich. I would say my career choice is in fourth place in limiting my effectiveness as a single adult." (It's possible that it helped. Within a year, he would be married.)

My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

No matter what path you choose, never forget to protect those who are precious to you.

A paradox: The things you don't need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.

If you were stranded on an island, what 3 things would you bring with you?

In 1900, the average American spent $76 of every $100 on food, clothing and shelter. Today he spends $37.

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.

The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on secondary questions (usually related to controversial and sensational issues) and very little time exploring the primary questions about our brief stay here on earth.

Two hours with my grandpa felt like eternity, but also like not long enough. I should have come sooner. I should have called him more this past year. I should have watched more Cubs games with him, and I should have been better at being his grandson.

He considered rolling over and simply ignoring his son. There should be a rule in parenting that you get to do that once every fiscal year. If you skip a year, it carries over— like airline miles or paid time off.

It turns out that maybe breeding bonsai-tree children to become résumé zombies isn't so good for their mental health.

You can't hand boys around as though they were pieces of cake, she said. Don't worry about getting a boy for me, Betsy. Boys just don't seem important to me. They don't seem any more important to me than they ever did. Tacy! said Betsy. You're beyond me! Well! said Tacy. That's the way I am.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness." Keating

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you – except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected.

People missed their children's soccer games and dance recitals. People got home too late to tuck toddlers into bed. Those like Rahm, Axe, and others, who'd decided against putting their families through the disruption of moving to Washington, barely saw their spouses and kids at all.

She's happy now she's met someone. And I have my work." "Is that enough?" "Sometimes.