Quotes About Prioritization

Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.

One thing at a time, is my motto—and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only two pair and a jack.

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

Primero los colores. Luego los humanos. Así es como acostumbro a ver las cosas. O, al menos, así intento verlas.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

One woman I knew decided, with her husband, to abort a planned pregnancy when a crucial three-day exam was scheduled near her due date. I don't know whether she even asked if the exam could be rescheduled.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.

Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two.