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Quotes About Prioritization

Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. Am I still a mother? I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
~ Mona Simpson
I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social skills - when our kids are little. I don't see ho it's putting them ahead if they know how to write their name before the next kid.
~ Muffy Mead-Ferro
one cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams. I considered that, if I were not true to myself, then all the mothering I could give you would have been falsehood
~ Nancy Springer
I'd chosen- not the lesser evil, but the less immediate one.
~ Naomi Novik
you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't
~ Naomi Novik
in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.
~ Naomi Novik
PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.
~ Napoleon Hill
When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
~ Napoleon Hill
Time is the coin of your Life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most for your expenditure.
~ Carl Sandburg
lo importante es ser productivo y no el estar ocupado
~ Carlos Alonso
Una delle prime risorse dello scrittore professionista che Isabella aveva imparato da me era l'arte e la pratica di procrastinare. Ogni veterano del mestiere sa che qualunque occupazione, dal temperare la matita al catalogare le ragnatele, ha la priorità al momento di sedersi alla scrivania per spremersi le meningi.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
friends. She made her spiritual life a priority, and each morning she and her son would visualize their lives as happy and complete—an action that tapped into the spiritual energies associated with the third chakra: endurance, stamina, and self-respect.
~ Caroline Myss
Sometimes love blinds a person to like, and although love is important, like is just as much so.
~ Carolyn Brown
God worked things out. Whether folks liked it or not was up to them. They could be bitter or they could be better. Bitter had the letter I in it, and every single time people put themselves first, it became a problem that created a bitter attitude.
~ Carolyn Brown
Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. [...] And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Good girls always come second.
~ Cecelia Ahern
And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.
~ Cecelia Ahern
It's something I've always wanted to do but never did. With work and everything it's hard to find the time to do things for yourself. So I just thought one day, fuck it, do it. And I did. Or at least I'm trying.
~ Cecelia Ahern
One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.
~ Charlaine Harris
Don't worry about not feeling guilty," Alcide said. "Something'll come along pretty soon that you'll feel guilty about. Save it up.
~ Charlaine Harris
People say maybe I could have got better performances out of myself or I could have a got few more fights out of myself if I looked after my body a little bit more but at the end of the day it was because I was jack the lad.
~ Ricky Hatton
My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
~ Nadia Comaneci
'The Lady' is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.
~ Michelle Yeoh
Whatever is in the best interest of the Lakers, that's what's important to me.
~ Metta World Peace