Quotes About Priorities

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. Here

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.

I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.

the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations. When

Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations

You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

That's the problem with people, Kanan said. They never need help on your schedule - only theirs.

Everyone I know has a fine big sedan, Mrs. Levy said as she got into the little car. Not you. No. You have to own a kid's car that costs more than a Cadillac and blows my hair all around.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.

If one is fed, housed, and healthy, then debts, pride, conscience, standards, dignity, and what you will, will have to be laughed off....

The God of the Christians is a father who is a great deal more concerned about his apples than he is about his children.

From neither the White House nor any other senior administration post would there come any leadership, any attempt to set priorities, any attempt to coordinate activities, any attempt to deliver resources.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.