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Quotes About Prioritization

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
~ Stephen Covey
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
~ George Soros
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
~ Dean Kamen
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.
~ Alan Cohen
There are many who would take my time. I shun them.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
~ Charles Dickens
Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
~ Teresa of Avila
I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.
~ Cheryl Richardson
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
~ David Heinemeier Hansson
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
~ Donald Knuth
Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
~ Chris Jericho
It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.
~ Richard Koch
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.
~ Arianna Huffington
Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'
~ Chris Colfer
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Quit counting time and start making time count
~ Zig Ziglar
There's never enough time to do nothing!
~ Daniel Radcliffe
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
~ Doug Larsen
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
~ Stephen Covey