Quotes About Priorities

There was a time when I considered taking my chartered exams. But then I met Stuart and my career began to take a back seat to his. He often tells me I'll be the one to give up my career – such as it is – anyway when we have kids, so what's the point in doing all that training? I suppose he has a point.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.

Parents care more than any institution about their children.

Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it.

He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

on the list of priorities my ass is number one, and my ass is also number two. My soul's in a distant third place.

was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Life was full: no hacker is worth missing a Dead concert for.

Honesty is dependent on priorities.

There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

bohemian's ability not to worry about money always starts with your money rather than his.)

And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. —DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,

One parent is enough to spoil you but discipline takes two. I got too much of what I wanted and not enough of what I needed.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. (SAMUEL JOHNSON)

For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.