Quotes About Prioritization

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

You must always work not just within, but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way, the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. —Pablo Picasso

It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.

I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping. This is easier said than done.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

In our business, it's hard to look at anything in retrospect and look at your accomplishments because you're so busy thinking about the next week. What we do is 52 weeks a year.

In the rush of busy life, we don't get enough of time to enjoy with our children.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

I just try to keep the main thing the main thing: getting my butt in the gym.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.

I stopped taking calls when I'm with my kids. It's either work time or family time.

There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

We have to put Canadian working families first. I'm going to do that, from trade to our own domestic economic response post-COVID.

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

I care more about Curtis than I do about selfies and looking good.

The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things - more time to move up that career path. It's about time.

I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.