Quotes About Prioritization

My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.

I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

To ride two horses at the same time is difficult.

I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a couple. But whatever's hot at the moment is what I'll gravitate toward.

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

I can't tell you how many times I had opportunities to do other things and went and golfed because I wanted to be the best.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

Senior figures in the War Office and Admiralty decided that sinking German ships would be more cost-effective than building British ones.

Être de gauche c'est d'abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi ; être de droite c'est l'inverse.

If you couldn't find something in thirty seconds, you were losing money, his father always said. Return phone calls immediately was another rule Clay had been taught to obey.

Ben thought that was how you could tell the difference between most people. It wasn't I'm a dog person and I'm a cat person or I'm a Chiefs fan and I'm a Broncos guy. It was whether you cared about quarters. To him, four quarters was a dollar. A stack of quarters was lunch. The amount of quarters those little shits threw out the window that day could have bought him half a pair of jeans.

When money is limited, one budgets. And when time is in limited supply, the same principle holds. The disorganized person must have a budgeting perspective. And that means determining the difference between the fixed—what one must do—and the discretionary—what one would like to do.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

There are unimportant pieces in any game.