Quotes About Priorities

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for the purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available.

At your age?' My ass. As long as I feed & support my family, do my job & do it well, I'll act any age as I damn well please.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

Tu t'efforces d'alimenter la passion charnelle et ruses pour grappiller quelque argent, alors que tu oublies l'obscurité qui t'entourera dans ton tombeau et ne songes pas à ce qui t'adviendra ensuite.

When the Apocalypse comes, you'll find me pushing Marie Antoinette out of the way and saying, 'Let me eat cake! Forget them; I want the cake! Two helpings! I have some friends with me! Is there coffee with the cake, Marie? I'm just asking.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

What keeps a person passive and compliant," he explained, "is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don't ultimately matter—money, career, physical safety—you can overcome that fear.

I think Alfred Edmond from Black Enterprise said it best. He suggests you ask yourself, "Am I using money to buy things or accomplish things?" Buying things refers to purchases like a new car or a plasma television. Accomplishing things means spending money on opportunities that move you forward—like homeownership or an education.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I've never let myself dwell on what other people think of me......You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over it? better to concentrate on more important things.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

If your schedule is unmanageable and overwhelming, it's likely your priorities are in the wrong place.

without a deep understanding that our significance comes from being loved and accepted by God exactly as we are, upside-down priorities will dominate our lives.

God challenged me to match my outsides with my insides. I had to reevaluate my priorities and my expectations for myself. It was a time of brutal honesty, loneliness, and shattered pride. But it was drenched in a message of hope and redemption.

When I consider my priorities and the best use of my time, one of the questions I ask myself is What can only I do?

The only reason to manage time wisely is so you can spend it on what matters most. That's not always work.

When God changes our circumstances, we should consider changing our priorities.