Quotes About Priorities

we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up;

Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running.

focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Inside-out

the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

Guns were out and butter was in, enough to grease the welfare skids and

in the vast majority of systems, efficiency isn't critical.

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'.

really care about, not what they say they care about. 2. Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide. 3. Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises

Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide.

No andéis preocupados por vuestra vida, qué comeréis, ni por vuestro cuerpo, con qué os vestiréis…».

It makes no sense to scrimp all your life so that you can have one hell of a ninetieth birthday bash.

It makes little sense to make tens of millions of poor Americans pay more for clothing to save tens of thousands of jobs in the apparel industry.

Watch a movie now or pass a course later; buy a bauble now or pay the rent later; enjoy five minutes of fellatio now or an unblemished record in the history books later.

Human life is a cardinal value that trumps social norms, social stability, or obedience to the law.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.