Quotes About Prioritizing

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself, is that what love is?

In David Copperfield, Charles Dickens's character Wilkins Micawber pronounced a now-famous law: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.

so be proactive in seeking information from many, always prioritizing those who have fresh-lived experience of the job market.

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

I'd rather have a small part in a big film or good story than do a solo film just for the sake of it.

we ought to have gone back up and started at the library, but we didn't, in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.

Appreciating your loved ones," Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. "Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what's important.

The premise of this chapter is that by cultivating a high-quality leisure life first, it will become easier to minimize low-quality digital diversions later.

As Johnson explained to me, it takes time to figure out how best to structure the crazy inputs and interaction that surround most work processes. He's diligent in making sure that everyone keeps prioritizing this. "You need time away from inputs to figure out how best to systematize those inputs," he explained.

Our work culture's shift toward the shallow (whether you think it's philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth—

Creating and prioritizing work inside a department is hard. Managing work among departments must be at least ten times more difficult.

If you can't save a child, what's the point of it all?" I told him. "Julie's worth saving, and I don't want to buy my safety with her blood. I'd die first." I

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.

I don't really do any corporate gigs or I don't really cash in which is a bit silly and much to the annoyance of my family. I'd rather just do gigs that I like and TV shows that I like rather than personal appearances at a nightclub.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.