Quotes About Priorities

Instead of opportunities for serious accomplishment in our culture, we supply our children with expensive toys, hoping that these will occupy them and keep them from disturbing us.

Life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement.

Women typically go through four developmental stages; 1. Gotta get a man. 2. Gotta get a house. 3. Gotta get a kid. 4. Gotta get a life. Stage four is commonly referred to as the change of life, or the clinical term men-on-pause.

Though outwardly Kristina maintained that a clean room was a symptom of a diseased mind (for how could she, while studying the world's greatest thinkers, be bothered with such mundane earthly issues as cleaning?), inwardly she hated untidyness and made a point of spending as little time in the room as possible.

Ti dicono lui è mio e tu dici va bene, va bene, è tuo, certo, prendilo, niente è importante per me. Né me stessa, né il mio pane, né la mia vita, e neanche lui. Io combatto per niente.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Y claro que no tenés tiempo, no lo tenés acá, porque tu tiempo está en otro lugar, con tu mujer y tu hijo. Sos de otro tiempo.

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

Don't forget that, Celia. There's more to life than flowery words and orgasms.

Why should I remain in college?" "You've got me," he said without a pause. "That's the best you can do?" I said. "How much money do you have?" "More than I know what to do with," I said, honestly. Everett sighed. I could hear him lighting his cigar. "I suppose you could remain in school for the sex. I here there's a lot of it. Or not." "What about an education?" "Hell, you can read. You know where the library is.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

Blowing up a few buildings is a lot better than an exploding planet, but people aren't very interested in simple arithmetic when there's blame to assign.

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

A lot of the operational improvement that gets implemented is really driven by the front-line workforce — the people in sales, customer service, working in the plant. And so it's a way to have them share in the upside but also to drive much greater engagement at that level in whatever priorities that we're trying to deploy.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Dependents display selective memory and selective attention. They commonly fail to set priorities effectively, often focusing on activities that have little long-term value, while ignoring those that will impact on their futures.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

From now on, have your passions; but as for love, you need to know where to invest it wisely. It's only a woman's final love that can satisfy a man's first love.