Quotes About Prioritization

I want you to have some nice stuff; I just don't want your nice stuff to have you.

She had the opportunity to spend time at Jesus' feet, and, instead, she's doing the dishes. I've done that! I've been so blinded by the work that I've totally missed the real blessing in a situation. That's what we do when we think that money or wealth or possessions or God's favor and blessings come only from our performance.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler

Whenever someone tells me she is a procrastinator, I respond by asking them, "Did you eat this week?" Of course, the person will always answer yes. The fact is, no one procrastinates all the time. What you may be is a selective procrastinator -- which means that if something is important enough (like eating), you are perfectly capable of taking care of it right away.

It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in the process. As the old proverb cautions: if you chase two rabbits, you catch neither.

Picking up pennies while dropping dollars

I can and do work 16-hour days but solely by choice now as I could sleep for a year and nothing would miss a beat only because I fought through my life plans every step of the way and steered clear of drama, bs and haters.

Saving the most people means we can't help anybody if we're dead.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

The prospect filled him with regret, but a man had to tend to his own garden first before he could tend to the gardens of others.

Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.