Quotes About Prioritization

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Lord, you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you, do not you forget me.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.