Quotes About Prioritization

The next time there's something that you can't live without, wait for a week and then see if you're still alive.

How about first ensuring that people within a twenty-mile radius like the food before worrying about scaling the restaurant?

Sometimes he'd get home before the children were asleep, and carry them around on his back, kick balls with them, and tell them stories of pigs with spiders on their heads. Other times he would turn up late so he could have his wife make supper, and be free of the feeling that the kids were devouring his life.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I've had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was 'retiring' from 'Speakeasy.'

If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?

I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring with Revamp.

When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We tend to become very focused on what we are doing. And we tend to be a little bit one-track-minded.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

When I grew up, I never - I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

Every tournament is important for me.

If you are in a tournament, you have to think of yourself - you can't think of your wife or children - only about yourself. Otherwise, you wake up, eat, prepare, do everything you can to be in good shape.

I don't want one tournament to offset another. I want to be fresh and take full advantage of the opportunity I've been given.

It's not easy to put another tournament on the schedule.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

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.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.