Quotes About Prioritization

No. As Zedd is fond of saying, nothing is ever easy. How can we justify going after one little girl, to solve the riddle of her loaf of bread, while Rahl goes after the box?

If you want something done, give it to someone who's busy!

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

Give up the lesser comforts for the greater happiness.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.

The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

You have to protect yourself and your beloved ones by practicing selective watering.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service for others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. [...] Are we working for other humans, or are we just working for the name of an organization?

You end up sacrificing quality time with family and friends, and you end up sacrificing time with yourself. Often you even sacrifice your health.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

I like to do one film at a time. But sometimes, when projects get delayed for reasons beyond my control, I juggle more than one.

I have to juggle school, dance training every night, work-outs and all the writing sessions.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.

I have a dual role as founder of AERIN and Image and Style Director of Estee Lauder. So work is a bit of a juggling act.

Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

It's very important to say no to stuff you don't like because then you won't be able to do justice to it.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.