Quotes About Prioritization

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

since time is a luxury you don't always have." He believed

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn't feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren't too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

You can't have everything... where would you put it? Steven Wright

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

It was time I stopped worrying about greater issues and applied myself to my personal well being.

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Pace yourself in your work and commitments. Nobody is indispensable. And when you get sick, honor your body by giving it the rest and medical attention that it's asking for.

On packing Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money.