Quotes About Prioritization

I'm on the whatever-gets-this-book-that-I'm-working-on-written track. I have really done it a lot of different ways, to be honest. I'm a full-time Dad, I've been a full-time teacher for some 20 years. Good Girls is book number seven. One of the things that has made it possible for me is I get up every day and I find a way to fit some writing in, no matter what.

Women can't have it all if that means doing it all.

If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

People who don't know their purpose try to do too much—and that causes stress, fatigue and conflict. It's impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God's will. If you can't get it all done, it means you're trying to do more than God intended for you to do.

If decision making taxes our self-regulation, then an easy response is to minimize decisions before tackling something we've been procrastinating.

Not every task, volunteer position, responsibility at work, or job around the house is my responsibility.

The only reason to manage time wisely is so you can spend it on what matters most. That's not always work.

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

recognition that soul cultivation goes before institution building.

To walk into an office and have your 'good morning' returned with a grunt and no eye contact is not my idea of a happy house. There is always time to acknowledge that Someone is more important than Something, even if it takes a couple of precious minutes.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

Don't let house or garden climb on your back and stick there. And unclutter your mind from any idea that you have to do a thousand things before other people do them.

A sow prefers bran to roses.

Always eat grapes downwards — that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot...

Those obsessed with health are not healthy: the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

I give dignity second place to expedience," said Cugel.

give dignity second place to expedience

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

Scarcity brings clarity.