Quotes About Priorities

In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the comfort zone and that's why I love shooting here. In Bombay, the money is bigger, the stakes are bigger.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

We have here other fish to fry.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.