Quotes About Priorities

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

You have a fixation with time - clocks, years. What do they matter when there's love?

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees.

It is easy to lose ourselves in corporate imperatives, to feel we are beholden to forces that might not be aligned with our personal aspirations and priorities, or with how we wish to give expression to our lives.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.

I've given you a fucking road map to the asshole who shot me and killed Kim and you want to talk about Raylene? Do your job.

There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

I think the most important thing is to be busy, because if you have work occupying you, you don't have time to worry about the other serious problems in life.

Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things, But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.