Quotes About Prioritization

Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.

In hard times, or even presuccess times, society and at least one cartoonist want you to take care of yourself first. If you pursue your selfish objectives, and you do it well, someday your focus will turn outward.

You might wince at the fact that I put economics ahead of your family, your friends, and the rest of the world, but there's a reason. If you don't get your personal financial engine working right, you place a burden on everyone from your family to the country. Once

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. If you neglect your health or your career, you slip into the second category—stupid—which is a short slide to becoming a burden on society.

Generous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best.

It wasn't just the British foreign secretary whose time was taken up dealing with such things, but the foreign ministers—and in many cases, the prime ministers and presidents and kings—of all the powers, and often over struggles even less significant than that which entangled Curt Prüfer. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?

Believers are called to be servants, and that invariably involves periodically putting others' needs ahead of our own and in rare circumstances can involve laying down one's life for another. It does not, however, obligate believers to neglect their legitimate self-interest.

I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you." He put his hands on her shoulders. "It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose – that I couldn't lose you. That's when I knew.

If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Gerçekte hep iki zaman aras?nday?zd?r: Gövdenin ve bilincin zaman? aras?nda. Bütün öbür kültürlerdeki ruh ve gözde aras?ndaki ayr?m iÅŸte buradan kaynaklan?r. Öncelik her zaman ruhundur ve yeri bir baÅŸka zaman?n akt??? çizgidedir.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

And we think more like managers, whose task is to do things right, than as leaders, whose task is to do the right thing.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.

Kids spell love T-I-M-E.

Nothing comes to my desk that is perfectly solvable," President Obama explained to the author Michael Lewis. "Otherwise, someone else would have solved it. So you wind up dealing with probabilities. ... You can't be paralyzed by the fact that it might not work out." Thomas Jefferson explained this to his secretary of the treasury: "What is good in this case cannot be effected. We have, therefore, only to find out what will be least bad.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.