Quotes About Priorities

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

Being a dad is more important than football.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

Im dating a very high-maintenance career.

After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

It's not being angry that's important, it's being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

no, a mí no se me habría pasado por la cabeza abandonar la familia y la fábrica para dedicar todo mi tiempo a escribir, como él hizo.

He thinks, Because ... [x9]. But all he says to his son is, 'Because I don't want to lose my children.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

The late Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical American author, wrote: "For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But—often with tears in their eyes—they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the beatitudes, be posted anywhere.