Quotes About Priorities

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

he passed through a village and a woman approached him with a request. 'I don't have the time,' he replied. 'Then stop being emperor' was the devastating riposte.

We're so obsessed with assuring our own perpetuity that our goals seldom coincide with what would be good for humankind

Recycling has been little more than a comforting distraction from the stuff that really matters.

If I ever have children I will let them grow up like the weeds in our flower garden. Nobody worries about them and they grow so high and thick-while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer every summer.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority list as finding a cockroach in their coffee. The typical scientist has made an interesting discovery early on in his or her career, followed by a lifetime of making sure that everyone else admires his or her contribution and that no one questions it. There is no poorer company than an aging scientist who has failed to achieve these objectives.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

if the potential employees made the mistake of talking about wanting a harmonious balance between work and home life, Bezos rejected them.

When you're so committed to the future, it's real easy to let your life right now turn to shit.

Everyone all my life has been telling me it's just a phase that will pass; that it's something I can be working toward for my old age instead of wasting time on it now when I should be making money. That was exactly it, except that all at once I no longer saw any sense in spending the best years of my life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part.

you get into horrible trouble and desperately need me, I'll be much too busy with my own problems!

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

A man is what he has passion about," Breeze said. "I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.