Quotes About Priorities

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.

I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

I am living my childhood with my kids, although it's true that responsibilities have increased.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

As a physician, who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moments of people's lives including their final moments, let me tell you a secret. People facing death don't think about what degrees they have earned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is who you loved and who loved you. That circle of love is everything, and is a great measure of a past life. It is the gift of greatest worth.

Surprisingly straightforward in their clarity and simplicity, Lietaer and Dunne point out that money is a human invention. Our current monetary system was designed some 300 years ago, during an era that knew nothing of natural limits and had a completely different set of objectives and priorities. It's a tool that should be serving us, rather than being our master. And since it is a man-made construct, it can be re-thought, re-imagined, and redesigned.

Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

she raised the issue of returning to her job as a teacher with him, it's not like we can't afford a childminder he replied that it was impractical to have two masters: a boss at work and a husband was he joking? not by the look on his face

creating "social value" is not merely an abstraction. Companies may create it by using their managerial imagination or by forging strategic alliances. It is just about setting out to it, integrating it into corporate priorities and policies and maintaining absolute consistency between words and actions.

Jestliže má student ro?nÄ› na oble?ení 1000 marek, musí vÄ›novat polovinu tÄ›chto penÄ›z na jeden pár bot. JeÅ¡tÄ› lepÅ¡í je vÄ›novat celou ?ástku na boty...

Nedostatek penÄ›z vÅ¡ak není pravý d?vod žalostného stavu bot vÄ›tÅ¡iny naÅ¡ich spoluob?an?. Podstatou je nedostatek vkusu.

Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can't slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.

We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don't think that is the nation we should be living in.

It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!