Quotes About Prioritization

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.

If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.

You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

We prioritize protecting the people's daily lives and jobs by continuing to make every effort to prevent coronavirus infections.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing.

Doctors must spend large amounts of time making the business end of their practice work, giving priority to the procedures that generate the most revenue. Hospitals are run like hotels, aiming to fill their beds and leave little spare capacity.

I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

If you can afford to eat yourself fat, you can afford to pay to go to WeightWatchers if you think that is the answer.

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

I've started thinking of all my inbox trays almost like a social media feed. I'm not going to get to everything, but if it's really important, I will.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

We need to execute fewer things better.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.