Quotes About Prioritization

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

While some people cannot see the forest for the trees, others cannot see the trees for the forest. Sometimes we can more easily love the world than the ones whom God places in front of us.

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Our culture pushes this idea that romantic love is somehow more significant than other forms of love.

The building was old. A more prosperous community would have torn it down years ago, but Ice Islanders just kept fixing it, making do. The prevailing attitude seemed to be that good teachers and not fancy buildings were the key to a solid education. A teacher needed books, a blackboard, chalk, and a classroom. Period. The function of the building was to keep the students warm and dry; anything else would be extravagant.

Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values.

Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. There

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Letting myself get stressed out makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

You can't have it all, all at once... Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the years as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

Don't let the hours own you.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

You don't have to brush your teeth — just the ones you want to keep.

Don't let life get in the way of living