Quotes About Priorities

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear—and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.

different women view different segments of the women's movement agenda as priority items. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

Apparently launching those new [domestic social] programs can be delayed for a while, after all. It seems we have to get some missiles launched first. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

Two more years of fantastic waste in the Defense Department and of penny pinching on social programs (From Voices of Multicultural America)

The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Things are done according to money these days.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Which is more important… to make a million dollars, or to enjoy your life in your effort, little by little, even thought it is impossible to make that million; to be successful, or to find some meaning in your effort to be successful?

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

I was still unable to reconcile the uncontrollable passions of "want" and the unmovable insistence of "need" as they battled relentlessly over possession of my meager resources, with "want" winning out over "need" far more frequently than it should have.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]