Quotes About Prioritization

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.

I sometimes can't be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.

I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.

It's like, the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in, and your day is shredded to bits because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do.

Something has to give during a deployment and for me it's often punctuality.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

I've honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I'm evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I'm passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can't answer 'yes' to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, 'Is it really that important?'