Quotes About Prioritization

I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you.

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

Time utilization should focused on life

Don't lose everything over someone who doesn't matter.

I'm not going to try to deal with a murder case, menopause, and breast cancer at the same time.

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian'. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming firsts but many balances.

Never put a boy in front of your friendship

Children grow away from busy parents because busy parents grow way from the children.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.