Quotes About Priorities

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs.

It's too much trouble to get laid. Because you have to go out with a guy, and go to dinner with him, and listen to him talk about his opinions, and I don't have that kind of time.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

Yeah, I'm really worried. OK, so what's left on the big, big list of things I have to get done before I go insane or the world comes to end, whichever comes first?

Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!" Of course it is! It's a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I'm going to save this dress at all costs." - Sam to Clare

money and he couldn't refuse. I couldn't believe he put earning cash, which he definitely didn't need, above being at the birth of his son. Our baby hadn't

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

He said to tell you that when you're up to your ass in alligators, it's a little difficult to remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp.

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely.

Clearly, if we want students to perform well on standardized reading tests, our top priority should not be on narrowing students into a test-prep curriculum; our focus should be on providing our students with the widest reading experiences possible.

We have to save the world before we can live in it

Tell me which you could sooner do without, love or water." "What do you mean?" "I mean, could you live without love, or could you live without water?" "Why can't I have both?

I'm like any working mom.

A dead man's shroud has no pockets.

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

We can take away some encouraging things from this. One is a bit of perspective. I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.

When displaying the riches of God's love and pleasing him is more important than holding onto worldly things and pleasing yourself, it becomes increasingly natural to respond to conflict graciously, wisely, and with self-control.

Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.

God wants you to prosper financially! But your prosperity depends on your putting first things first. There are qualifications involved.

I'm afraid that most people cry more tears over their own affairs than over other people's massacres. Like, over broken love affairs. Or even toothache.

Sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon.