Quotes About Prioritization

We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.

If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.

With 'Batman,' I actually had a really bad period when we started 'Zero Year,' right at the beginning, I just wasn't taking care of myself at all. I was up too late all the time, I was working too hard. I wasn't exercising.

The most dangerous thing a Bachelor or Bachelorette can do is zero in on someone early and just shut everybody and everything else out emotionally.

We will be a state that puts hardworking Georgians - no matter their ZIP code or political preference - first.

When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

We live in a zoo, and we get to share all our animals with the people who come in. We really put our animals first, and then the staff, and then the visitors. The animals aren't pacing; they're all happy. When you touch an animal, it ultimately touches you.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

He who begins many things finishes but few.