Quotes About Prioritization

Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth. Parks, good governance, and smoothly flowing traffic are optional, not required. Sometimes cities grow at an astonishing rate, despite being hell on Earth.

He who defends everything," Frederick the Great used to admonish his generals, "defends nothing.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than ourselves

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Oh, I can't bother to write. If it's too long to telegraph I just let it go.

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

Sewing forever, housework whenever.

You know you're a nurse if… you triage the laundry at home.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

One of these days is none of these days.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between two.

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?

Solution 2: Don't let your blinky light blink. By keeping it on steady mode, you'll use up the battery faster, but you'll be around to buy more. Don't be cheap and dead.