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Quotes About Prioritization

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.
~ Twyla Tharp
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
~ Colin Powell
Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
~ Rick Baker
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
~ Anatoly Karpov
So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
~ Ang Lee
I divide my time badly.
~ Antonio Banderas
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
~ Ben Casnocha
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
~ Ben Nelson
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
~ Billy Graham
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
~ Billy Graham
I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.
~ Bob Kane
You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
~ Brian Tracy
No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
~ Brian Tracy
One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
~ Brian Tracy
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
~ Charles E. Leiserson
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
~ Charles Kuralt
I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.
~ Christine Gregoire
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
~ Dennis Kucinich
You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time
~ Dennis Prager
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.
~ Donna Karan
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
~ Ed Balls