Quotes About Priorities

Money can change your circumstances to a certain point, but money doesn't help much once you have your basic needs met.

Most people throughout the world, not just in Newport Beach, care more about their faces, their boobs, their bellies, their butts, and their abs than they do their brains.

Most people throughout the world, not just in Newport Beach, care more about their faces, their boobs, their bellies, their butts, and their abs than they do their brains. But it is your brain that is the key to having the face, the breasts, the belly, the butt, the abs, and the overall health you have always wanted; and it is brain dysfunction, in large part, that ruins our bodies and causes premature aging.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes?

but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it's a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.

What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

And the first step in bulldozing these obstacles is to enumerate them. As Peters puts it, "What you decide not to do is probably more important than what you decide to do.

Choose your foundation carefully. Your identity, purpose, values, priorities, goals, time, and ultimate legacy will all stand or fall on this foundation.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs.

We are doing the jobs of ten different people while still trying to keep up with our lives, our children and parents, our friends, our careers, our hobbies, and our favorite TV shows. It's no wonder that sometimes one memory gets confounded with another, leading us to show up in the right place but on the wrong day, or to forget something as simple as where we last put our glasses or the remote.

what you do and don't value, and what you do and don't give attention to, will impact who your child becomes.

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

I'd like to have a 15 million euro villa, but if I can't afford it, I have to look for an apartment that I like.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.

What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.