Quotes About Prioritization

she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death—a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.

It seemed to Ivan that he needed to court his wife. Promptly. In the next, what was it, ten days.

I planned my life by the hour as closely as one plans a year, and no further than an hour.

Everybody makes that same damned argument. 'I can't do it all, so I'm not going to do any.' And they don't. And it goes on, and on.

My mama used to say to me, What, you don't have time to do it right, but you do have time to do it over?

She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love. ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best. ...not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak.

There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can't be in love with them all.

To spend your time thinking about what you can do to keep from disappointing him, or what might happen if you were to displease her, or how it might look if you did this, or how you might be rejected if you didn't do that, rather than simply thinking about how you can please God, is not only worry, but stupidity.

sleep whenever there was time and to eat when there was food.

Seems to me folks waste a sight of time crossing bridges before they get to them. They clutter their minds with odds and ends that interfere with clear thinking.

If you had been up early and done a little every morning there would be no hurry now. I told you that, Rob and you never minded. I cannot have the lessons neglected as the work has been. The squirrels will get more than their share this year and they deserve it, for they worked best.

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

We push aside work that takes long—novels, poetry collections, biographies, articles, memoirs—to write e-mail messages that take little time while complaining we have no time to write.

Maybe this was what being in a pandemic brought forth. When everything big is out of control, you start taking charge of small things.

Waste neither time nor money" was his favorite motto.

It (balancing the budget) is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn to say no!

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

If we're busy borrowing distress from yesterday or anxiety from tomorrow, we miss today's best opportunities, thereby postponing our growth in grace, in faith, in character.

They should have focused more on me.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.