Quotes About Priorities

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

I think I couldn't love him at all if he was the sort of man to make me choose between him and my writing." And

I'd rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity.

Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.

There are some people who would rather be right than happy, as though making a point was more fun than having a good time These are the people who will risk their lives to get the last laugh even when it isn't funny

He would always say that what really matters in life is to 'Follow your dreams and to look after your friends and family along the way.' That was life in a nutshell for him, and I so hope to pass that on to my boys as they grow up.

But it taught me another big lesson: Don't leave your children if they don't want you to. Life, and their childhood, is so short and fragile.

25. Seek Out The Five Fs My dad always told me that living a good life was about 'looking after your friends and family and having the courage to go for your dreams'. That was life in a nutshell for him. Luckily those simple values meant much more to him than my school reports - which weren't always glowing!

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

When the party becomes more important than principle, we are in dire straits

we lose tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid fraud every year. This is something we have not been able to control, either because we don't care very much and view other issues as much more important, or because we are incompetent

What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?

Maybe we need a war now and then to get our priorities straight," a second man says.

just how into being a dad he was, even if he recognized, and was sometimes tortured by the fact, that being a dad meant he couldn't be as productive and immersed in his work as he thought he needed to be. Still, he was a dad, and he loved to tell stories, to anyone who would listen in fact, and

After all, the whole point of investing is not to earn more money than average, but to earn enough money to meet your own needs.

Certe persone desidererebbero che i loro figli leggessero di più. Io vorrei che tu leggessi di meno.

Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travel or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and respect are given to the man who seems to be rich. This is the chief reason why people wish to be rich. The actual goods purchased by their money play quite a secondary part.