Quotes About Priorities

Your goals and priorities will change over time. Always keep your current goals on a single sheet of paper with you. It demystifies the future, and will keep you on track and help you get what you want.

There have been men before ... who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself ... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?

My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Don't judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn't do my laundry.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

Personally, I don't stretch, I don't get massages. Maybe massages would be useful, but I just don't have the time for it.

New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

That's why we should respect people: not for how pretty they are, for how useful they are. What would you rather have, a pretty friend or a friend that can help you move? Always a friend that can help you move!

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.