Priorities Quotes

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenus. Dollars, not dimes.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don’t want to just collect more fuel.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else.