Quotes About Prioritization

They're first, that's all. I could love you more than life itself and they would still be first. It's a commitment a mother makes when she has children.

This isn't going to be an issue for long. In fact, much sooner than I like to think about, she'll be gone. She gave me her whole adult life, always putting me first. If I don't give her a few years of mine, the rest of my life won't matter a damn.

The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life.

simplification, 80–20 style, leads to more business as usual.

La vida seria imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto esta en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.

Ma se tu ami veramente qualcuno o qualcosa, dagli tutto quello che hai e anche tutto quello che sei, e fregatene del resto…

Not that I would describe fidelity as an exclusive contract, but rather a mutual devotion within shared assumptions. [...] She was greatly distressed, clearly more distressed than my condition warranted, and explained to me that when she was called and told of my accident she had been on the point of going to bed with a friend of mine. She left without a word to come to my side. That is what I mean by fidelity: putting love before pleasure.

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism.

Alongside my bed there is always a Lazy Stack and a Hard Stack.

That's how I am! eyes peeled, scientific! first things first! the big ones! the small ones!...if they're going to behead you...for example!...you don't take your eyes of the guillotine!...look, the blade's dull! -Executioner! you shout, hey, you lazy fucker! don't you have anyone sharpening that thing? And the executioner scurries off, shit-assed and sheepish!

so little time to enjoy all that life and the world had to offer. Why would they waste even a moment of their precious time on someone who didn't appreciate and treat them well?

Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.

My feelings of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited. I therefore must choose the person on whom to focus my capacity to love, toward whom to direct my will to love.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.

There was nothing wrong with being understanding and sympathetic. It had been instilled in him all his life... Be a good Christian, son. Put others needs before your own. It had been so instilled in him, in fact, that once he was away from home, he'd had to learn it was also okay to speak about your own needs and say what you wanted, too. The trick was to somehow find a balance between the two.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.