Quotes About Prioritization

He who runs after two hares at the same time, catches neither.

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.

how "violent" a swordsman you are going to be before your day begins. How much uninterrupted time will you carve out for yourself? Will you be a true time warrior? Because if you will, you'll love your timeless time.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do.

Algunas de nuestras decisiones más sensatas tienen que ver con lo que decidimos no hacer.

The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.

CLARITY TRUMPS CONSISTENCY If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity.

FOCUS RUTHLESSLY ON FIXING THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS FIRST

it's better to strive for a good solution and avoid disaster rather than trying to find the best solution

Hurrying to solve a problem is one of the most time-ineffective things you can do.

Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.

Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.

Any organization can conceivably accumulate dozens if not hundreds of concepts (ideas and opportunities). There are never enough resources to work on all these good ideas; instead they have to be evaluated, vetted, and culled. Most

There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

At every moment we choose, consciously or unconsciously, between good things now and better things later.

Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of good.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

For one thing, empathy can subvert human well-being when it runs afoul of a more fundamental principle, fairness. Batson found that when people empathized with Sheri, a ten-year-old girl with a serious illness, they also opted for her to jump a queue for medical treatment ahead of other children who had waited longer or needed it more. Empathy would have consigned these children to death and suffering because they were nameless and faceless.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.