Quotes About Prioritization

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.

She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

Do you know, I had a feeling of leisure in France and in England. I felt there as though people made their jobs work for them; they didn't give up their lives to working for their jobs.

learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

You can't have everything [...] because where on earth would you put it?

If you mean business, then spend your money on the business, not on expensive meals.

You need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'? It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first," she said.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.