Quotes About Prioritization

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

Brains are notoriously selfish organs. They give themselves priority access to everything they require—from blood-flow to warmth, nutrients and oxygen. During times of bodily stress, our brains will shut down one organ after another, even to the point of damaging them—before depriving themselves. Brains are also greedy. They make up just 2 per cent of our body weight, yet take 20 per cent of the energy we use.

What I've learned from him is that boundaries are liberating. They can be readjusted all the time, but it's important to have them...If you burn out, no one's going to benefit. So it's in everyone's interest for you to do what you can and then make it clear that you can do no more.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

Mahesh has no time to do anything apart from shooting for his films. And any free time he has is family time. He doesn't even step out to meet friends.

When I played, sometimes we would have one game in a week; now there are no free moments, no time, not even for family.

I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

When I first arrived at UConn, I told myself I was going to dedicate my life to basketball. And when you do something like that, you alienate a lot of other things in your life that most people think are normal things to do.

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

You'd rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that's going to last than pay less money for a headshot that's not good enough.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

There are some times when I have to take off the manager hat and be a father. And sometimes I have to take the father hat off and be a manager. And just to balance of that - and I'm not perfect so I make mistakes with that.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

I've been so hesitant to do anything else besides System because you know, when you do something grand and it's noticed so much, everything else you do is secondary.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.