Quotes About Prioritization

I believe in quality over quantity.

Obviously I will try to do 4 films a year, but more than quantity, quality is what matters to me.

I have said no so much that eventually work stopped coming to me, but I never stress on quantity. For me, quality matters.

After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

Number one, I tell the quarterbacks, do your job. You've gotta do your job before you can even worry about anybody else or any other situation.

I don't have enough time to actually prepare, to actually commit to being a beauty queen.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

I'm a very fast shopper. I'm very quick; whether it's big money or small money, it really doesn't matter to me. I just get all my things that I need together and get out as quickly as possible.

Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I get tired when I keep shorting my sleep, but I always make it to the gym. In our house, we live by this: 'Never quit, never cancel, never be late.' We've found it's a great way to live.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

If you've ever been a person who is running a successful brand or business and with someone who is doing the same, but in a different career path, you know that times can be tough. You're both always away. You're exhausted at the end of the day. Sometimes the relationship isn't being put first, but does that mean, 'Oh, you call it quits?' No.

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then now your mind has to make decisions of what is important and what is going to be above the radar and what's going to be below the radar.

All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but not themselves.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.