Quotes About Priorities

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine you true priorities in your work and personal life.

It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently with a value or to compromise it- that you demonstrate your true character...Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities.

The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.

We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

then why sell? James had asked. have to, Redmond said. if I want to get married and have children and live in this city, I have to. since when do you want to get married and have kids? James asked. since now. Life gets boring when you're middle-aged. You can't keep doing the same thing. You look like an asshole. You ever notice that? Redmond had asked.

So, while the spouse-child hides out in his "home office"—a misnomer since he's never produced any actual work there—his

Marilyn, I have a wife and family and a dog and a cat.

is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. You've got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you've got to be one or the other, either young or with money , you can't be old and without it. - That's the truth , Brick...

Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation...

Y'know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.

My baby don' care fo' rings or other expensive things— My baby just cares—fo'—me!

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

but when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.