Quotes About Priorities

Individuals or organizations with too many priorities have no priorities and risk spinning their wheels and accomplishing nothing of significance.

Individuals or organizations with too many priorities have no priorities and risk spinning their wheels and accomplishing nothing of significance. In turn, laser-focusing everyone on a single priority — today, this week, this quarter, this year, and the next decade — creates clarity and power throughout the organization.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education?

momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

in the first love, the soul is taken far before the body; afterwards the body is taken far before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all...

Mário estabelecera do seguinte modo o problema da sua vida: trabalhar o menos possível no serviço material para trabalhar o mais possível no serviço impalpável; por outras palavras, dar algumas horas à vida real e lançar o resto no infinito.

She hadn't been where it mattered, making memories with her husband and children. Maybe she'd thought time was more elastic, or love more forgiving.

She had counted on a lifetime to teach her children what they needed to know, but she didn't have that gift of grace and time. Still, she had given them what mattered: they were loved and they knew it. Everything else was decoration.

In a breathtaking instant, Cora's life crashed into focus, became small. There was just one thing that mattered; how could she not have known it from the beginning? Why had she spent so much time searching for who she was? She should have known. Always. From the very beginning. She was a mother. A mother.

Yesterday I was worried about a lot of things. Today I know what matters.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over.

Best friends fight. They lose sight of what matters.

But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

She had counted on a lifetime to teach her children what they needed to know, but she didn't have that gift of grace and time. Still, she had given them what mattered: they were loved and they knew it. Everything else was decoration. Love remains.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along. I

Making your partner first on your "to do" list, and not last, will help you keep your priorities in line and will also be the salvation of your loving connection.