#priorities

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. ↗

— Tony Blair

#choose #chooses #fails #government #irresponsible

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#bombarded #care #deeply #how #life

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#account #again #certainly #context #done

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#priorities #prioritize #schedule #your

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #bottom #bottom line #clear #crystal

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#became #breakthrough #calmer #changed #daughter

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#money #priorities #problem #values

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#farming #food #leisure #living #living-well

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock. ↗

— Eric Zorn

#against #clock #face #priorities #reveal

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance... ...One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#compassion #inspiration #love #priorities #unconditional_acceptance