Quotes About Prioritization

Pristojnost ?ovjeku samo oduzima vrijeme, ni?emu drugom ne koristi.

He who follows two hares is sure to catch

woe to him who stops to tie his shoestring?

Time is money. We should not be stingy or mean with it, but we should not throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a dollar-bill. Waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.

Each of us has the same number of hours in his day, the same number of days in his year, and the chief difference between the success and the failure lies in the use to which the hours' and the days are put.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Time is a waste of money.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being acccomplished.

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Most of the time, you'll be able to structure your work day around your peak energy times and your family's needs, rather than your employer's policies.

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies—and worry because they never seem to get their work done.

Good Working Habit No. 1: Clear Your Desk of All Papers Except Those Relating to the Immediate Problem at Hand.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

Nh?ng công vi?c ? ngay trÆ°á»›c m?t ta ph?i coi là quan tr?ng nh?t, và ??ng b?n tâm tá»›i nh?ng công vi?c còn m? m? t? xa

When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.