Quotes About Prioritization

Family time is where it's at. We can give our kids every bit of a designer lifestyle, but most of them are more interested in just being with us.

Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don't give a shit.

Conservation of energy," said Churchill, "Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Love is not a class that you take, it's a genuine emotion that causes people to think about their significant other before making any decisions.

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.

Zaman yaÅŸam?n kendisiydi. Ve yaÅŸam?n yeri yürekti. Ä°nsanlar zamandan tasarruf ettikçe, zaman azal?yordu.

Ä°nsan?n iÅŸini severek ve isteyerek yapmas?n?n bir önemi yoktu. Aksine, önemli olan ÅŸey, ne kadar k?sa sürede ne kadar çok iÅŸin yap?ld???yd?.

use every opportunity to communicate with my friends and family. Anytime I am sitting in the back of a cab, airports, or trains I use the time to send a note to my closest friends and family. I speak with my children and my mother every day. With my sister several times a week. Frequency of communication is important, much more so than duration. These techniques have helped me to stay in touch with my family and friends in Croatia even though I left it 30 years ago."—Tom, 56

Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things. It is also about the right way to value things.

We could only pay attention to one dying person at a time.

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not. Figure out the equivalent of an escape fire.

But if you worry about everything, you wind up worrying about nothing.

His attitude to the clutter of daily life was of a piece with his strategy for dealing with social demands. Unless you are kicking yourself once a month for throwing something away, you are not throwing enough away, he said. Everything that didn't seem to Amos obviously important he chucked, and thus what he saved acquired the interest of objects that have survived a pitiless culling.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I would say to Amos I have to do this or I have to do that," recalled his old friend Yeshu Kolodny. "And he would say, 'No. You don't.' And I thought: lucky man!

An afternoon can fly by or it can take 5 hours. Like you probably do, I productively fill the gaps that most people leave as dead time. My drive to be productive probably cost me my first marriage and a few days ago almost cost me my fiancée. Before I went to college the military had this "we do more before 9am than most people do all day" and I used to think and I do more than the military.

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not.

I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.