Quotes About Prioritization

To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky. My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father, and to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world.

One jet plane means this many fewer schools and hospitals.

My brain clears in an amazing way. Nora. We can't do everything. I have been given the secret of life. Altough it's probably a little late.

For months I'd been doing nothing but boiling eggs and teaching my child to differentiate between the cat in the hat and the fox in socks and Jonathan Rice, the undersecretary of state was actually angry at me! It's stuff like this that got us into Cambodia.

There're twenty-four hours in every day. Isn't there enough reality in that so we can put a small portion of time aside for wishing?

Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend Insanity...She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.

I haven't been with a man before. I know it. Adelia's smile was soft, almost wistful. Do you think I wouldn't know if that had changed for you? You think too much of yourself to give what you are to something unless it matters.No one's mattered before.

If you need to be pissed off at me today, you're going to have to get in line. There's quite a wait.

own personal calendar.

Good. I'll carve out some time for the vintner tomorrow, and you carve out some for the promotion whiz. Back to teamwork. Now, why haven't you kissed me hello?

Do you need to get that? Wherever it is. If I do, somebody'll just want to talk to me. I'd rather talk to you. How anyone could work in such confusion and disorder was beyond her.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Sometimes what happened now was more important to her than what would happen later, so to hell with it.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

When you're the Woman Upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you best of all.

You need to see everything else—everyone else—as expendable, as less than yourself.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

An organization's capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes—the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization's values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

As such, while senior managers may think they're making the resource allocation decisions, many of the really critical resource allocation decisions have actually been made long before senior management gets involved: Middle managers have made their decisions about which projects they'll back and carry to senior management—and which they will allow to languish.

Yes, we can do all kinds of things for our spouse, but if we are not focused on the jobs she most needs doing, we will reap frustration and confusion in our search for happiness in that relationship.

How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward.

If your family matters most to you, when you think about all the choices you've made with your time in a week, does your family seem to come out on top? Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.