Quotes About Priorities

You're right, nobody's perfect. But in the right relationship, you're going to be perfect for each other. Because you tick each other's boxes in the things that matter to you. So you can overlook his snoring, or he can ignore your aversion to exercise, or whatever it is that doesn't exactly align, as long as you each fulfil the big things, the important ones.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. Robert Collier

Many women have married primarily for money and found themselves miserable. No amount of trinkets and possessions can fill a heart

The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like.

death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Money and sex are two of the most challenging aspects of life to declutter, but extremely worth the trouble.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage?

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en el bolsillo lo que os puede caber en el cerebro!

El ahorro, cuando se hace a costa de una necesidad insatisfecha, ocasiona en los hombres acritud y encono.

There are natives of New Guinea who spend more time looking in the jungle for the colorful feathers they use for decoration in their ritual dances than they spend looking for food. And this is by no means a rare example: art, play, and ritual probably occupy more time and energy in most cultures than work.

True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a material standpoint this might be true. But it takes more than food in the fridge and two cars in the garage to keep a family going.

Inner conflict is the result of competing claims on attention.

establishing priorities among all the diverse information. Without consciousness we would still "know" what is going on, but we would have to react to it in a reflexive, instinctive way. With consciousness, we can deliberately weigh what the senses tell us, and respond accordingly.

if workers really enjoyed their jobs they would not only benefit personally, but sooner or later they would almost certainly produce more efficiently and reach all the other goals that now take precedence.

Hay tantas cosas de las que debemos preocuparnos y tan poco tiempo para atenderlas todas…