Quotes About Prioritization

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

Redeker believed that to try to protect everyone would stretch the government's resources to the breaking point, thus dooming the entire population. He compared it to survivors from a sinking ship capsizing a lifeboat that simply did not have room for them all. Redeker had even gone so far as to calculate who should be "brought aboard.

By diversifying, you become a juggler trying to keep too many balls in the air all at once.

What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life.

Am I really not worth shaving for?

Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work.

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails

I am going to start with the sock drawer because that is clearly the most important. You can't really concentrate on anything if your socks aren't right.

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

endless meetings. Ever since she'd assumed the title of Regent, Mimi felt as if her life was measured out in marathon conference calls and discussions that went nowhere.

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. —ANONYMOUS

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long.

I saw people who had gotten so absorbed in other people's problems they didn't have time to identify or solve their own. These were people who had cared so deeply, and often destructively, about other people that they had forgotten how to care about themselves. The

I spent many years of my life not even bothering to think about what I wanted and needed, where I wanted to go, and what I wanted to do. Life was to be endured. I didn't think I deserved good things. I didn't think most good things were within my reach. I wasn't that interested in my life, except as an appendage to other people. I didn't think about living my life; I was too focused on others. I was too busy reacting, rather than acting.

Today, I will take actions that appear appropriate. I will let go of the rest. I will strive for the balance between self-responsibility, responsibility to others, and letting go.

Most of us have been so busy responding to other people's problems that we haven't had time to identify, much less take care of, our own problems.

One problem at a time, that was his motto. Too bad he never got to live up to it.

20. Dreams Require Sacrifice The simple truth of life is that to get the things you really want, you will have to give up something else that you hold dear - whether it is your 'easy' life, your evening bar sessions, your comfort food or your time. Success requires sacrifice. Get used to it.

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As

one can only take care of everyone until there's no more money, at which time one can take care of no one

Never consider the bigger picture, because if you do you'll just give up. If you're hanging on a precipice, there's no point worrying that the precipice is in a desert five days from water. Just get out of the precipice, then worry about the water.

the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume

we advised the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume.

What else should you watch for? Most fund buyers look at past performance first, then at the manager's reputation, then at the riskiness of the fund, and finally (if ever) at the fund's expenses. The intelligent investor looks at those same things—but in the opposite order.