Quotes About Prioritization

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Have as your center idea — elimination. Everything that takes your time from your business or your family is an extra tax on your strength. Eliminate every habit that holds you back, every practice that unfits you for progress, every person who depresses you, every move that is not necessary, every footless idea that crowds your brain.

How much time out of every 24 hours do you devote to: a. your occupation b. sleep c. play and relaxation d. acquiring useful knowledge e. plain waste

After closing your day's business, devote a part of the evening to your family and friends, and a part of it to some good book.

If a woman permits her husband to lose interest in her, and become more interested in other women, it is usually because of her ignorance, or indifference toward the subjects of sex, love, and romance.

Steve Jobs: "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere

His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy. Accordingly

Mother Nature has given us some defense mechanisms: as in Aesop's fable, one of these is our ability to consider that the grapes we cannot (or did not) reach are sour. But an aggressively stoic prior disdain and rejection of the grapes is even more rewarding. Be aggressive; be the one to resign, if you have the guts.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," he said.

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

Steve Jobs: «La gente pensa che essere concentrati significhi dire sì alla cosa sulla quale ci si deve focalizzare. Ma non è affatto così. Significa dire no ad altre cento buone idee. Dovete scegliere con cura. Di fatto io sono orgoglioso delle cose che non abbiamo fatto tanto quanto lo sono di quelle che ho fatto. Innovazione significa dire no a mille cose».

that really successful people say no to almost everything

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

from cramming my day with appointments

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.

as he can carry a library on his device and "optimize" his time between golf outings.