Quotes About Prioritization

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to.

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

I need to complete my homework on time.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

sometimes we have no choice but to be selfish if we are to . . . survive" Excerpt From Someone to Hold

She lived in a world which she could make perfect for those she loved and in which her own comfort and happiness mattered not at all.

She had had to decide between one glorious night of love and a lifetime of friendship. She had chosen the night of love.

I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.

You're working so hard, burning the candle at both ends. Up early, home late. When are you going to stop and smell the roses?

We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness. We're, as the saying goes, all over the place. Steadfastness, it seems, is more about dogs than about us. One of the reasons we love them so much.

As I grew older the things I cared about grew fewer, but were more important. ... Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing - the reason they can fly.

It was evening, and I had decided to take a preemptive nap because I had to write a paper later.  I could have written the paper and then just gone to bed like a normal person, but that made no sense to my college mind: what if Jesus had come back?  No, you put your schoolwork off.  To do otherwise was a lack of faith. 

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Our lives can only hold so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.