Quotes About Prioritization

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

I spent about eight months of my year on 'Death in Paradise', so it doesn't leave a massive amount of time to do other stuff.

When you have kids, like I do, you have to also make sure that nothing, in terms of renovation and doing up things is dangerous to your children. Their safety is of paramount importance.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Jay Z doesn't care if he plays in Paris or Denver, but we do. We make more money in Paris.

There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

I rather win one championship as a key player than four championships as a part-time player.

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

If I die, I know the news item would be, 'Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.' That would come first. But I've come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the 'and novelist,' that will be fine.

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.

A lot of times, we forget it is our partners who we need to make the biggest effort for.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

WEF should restrict the number of passes for limos in the parking lots. They need to Keep it Simple.