Home > Topic > first things
1 " The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or " accessing" what we now call " information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first. "
2 " To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased. "
― C.S. Lewis , Letters of C. S. Lewis
3 " A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) "
― Victoria Moran , Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
4 " Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. "
― Jim George , A Husband After God's Own Heart
5 " I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way. "
― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)
6 " We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it? "
7 " Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. "
8 " The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. "
