Quotes About Prioritization

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Das ist so ziemlich alles außer Geschirrspülen.

Have your own house in order first before you think of leading and managing someone else's house. - Kailin Gow - Lead with Purpose

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it's going to adversely affect the things over which you have control." His

Always invest your money in the best food out there, and it's going to pay off in the long run.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.

If we don't invest in education we'll continue to be dead last.

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.

If I would have to sacrifice R&D investments to fulfill a goal, that would be the wrong goal to have.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

When it comes time for basketball, everything else is kind of irrelevant.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

The citizens of Israel come first.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.