Quotes About Prioritization

important—unimportant—unimportant—important—' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

And she wanted so much to make him happy that she forgot how to make herself happy" "That is not happiness. That is kind of murder, yeah?

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others, we forget to live our own.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

You will always have time for what you make time for

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.