Quotes About Prioritization

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. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling of taking the wrong things seriously.

John 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. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling, of taking the wrong things seriously.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them l

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of its contents.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them

We witnessed for ourselves the consequences of living for the best possible day today instead of sacrificing time now for time later.

Bludau needed to triage by zeroing in on either the most potentially life-threatening problem or the problem that bothered her the most. But this was evidently not what he thought. He asked almost nothing about either issue. Instead, he spent much of the exam looking at her feet. The single most serious threat she faced was [...] falling. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.

we pay doctors to give chemotherapy and to do surgery but not to take the time required to sort out when to do so is unwise. This certainly is a factor. But the issue isn't merely a matter of financing. It arises from a still unresolved argument about what the function of medicine really is—what, in other words, we should and should not be paying for doctors to do.

An inherent tension exists between brevity and effectiveness. Cut too much and you won't have enough checks to improve care. Leave too much in and the list becomes too long to use.

After a while, though, it seemed that the only thing he thought about was getting through all his patients as quickly as possible.

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.

pay doctors to give chemotherapy and to do surgery but not to take the time required to sort out when to do so is unwise.

an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave off death with $12,000-a-month chemotherapy, $4,000-a-day intensive care, $7,000-an-hour surgery. But, ultimately, death comes, and few are good at knowing when to stop.

An inherent tension exists between brevity and effectiveness. Cut too much and you won't have enough checks to improve care. Leave too much in and the list becomes too long to use. Furthermore

Dressing somebody is easier than letting them dress themselves. It takes less time. It's less aggravation. So unless supporting people's capabilities is made a priority, the staff ends up dressing people like they're rag dolls. Gradually, that's how everything begins to go. The tasks come to matter more than the people.

So you want to keep the list short by focusing on what he called "the killer items"—the steps that are most dangerous to skip and sometimes overlooked nonetheless.

Medicine requires the fortitude to take what comes: your schedule may be packed, the hour late, your child waiting for you to pick him up after swimming practice; but if a problem arises you have to do what is necessary

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!