Quotes About Priorities

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

There are many important things in life worth worrying about. There are even some aspects of music that warrant thoughtful consideration from conscientious musicians. If we take the research seriously, chordal-tone doubling is not one of them.

There is always money for war. You never hear political leaders say they can't go to war because the country can't afford it. They claim not to have money for the poor, homeless and hungry, but war? It's never a problem.

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

As the population of software developers ages, they care more about the rest of their lives. Many lament wasting their twenties locked up in an office slaving over a piece of code that failed to reach market expectations and became obsolete soon after release. Work/life

more money doesn't mean more better. It just means more.

Viktor Frankl says there are only three that matter. To do work that matters to you, to care for others, and to rise to the challenge of difficult times. Work, love, courage. That's it. Any other human pursuit is horseshit.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the planet.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.