Quotes About Prioritization

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

In 'Girlfriends,' I was exploring the idea of having it all. In 'Being Mary Jane,' I was exploring the idea that you have to be the center of everything.

The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

The most important thing when I joined Ajax was to combine it with school.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.

Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Qué raro que se muera alguien en vendimia. Siempre la gente lo deja para después.

After about a year, though, he concluded that the amount of time he was spending practicing the accordion was impinging on his chess studies. "I did fairly well on it for a while," Bobby said, looking back, "but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I was asking about lust, wasn't I? I was fairly certain of it. But isn't love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 A.M. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 P.M. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have one-on-one meetings with his subordinates. These meetings tended to be filled with trivial updates and political distractions, rather than problem solving and brainstorming. Even today, Bezos rarely meets alone with an individual colleague.