Quotes About Prioritization

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

You may delay, but time will not.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.