Quotes About Prioritization

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

After I hit the home run, I went back to left field, and I was standing in my position to catch a fly ball, and Donald Davis, my traveling secretary, was running down the left field line. He was telling me the President was on the telephone. And I said, "Well fine, Donald, but what do you want me to do? Stop the ball game?" I said, "Just put the President on hold, and I'll be right with him."

Public utility must be the first consideration.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Never say there isn't enough time for a thing that ought to be done. If a thing is necessary, why, life is long enough to find a place for it.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy. I have a bunch

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

Sometimes when you are good at hard work, you give yourself too much of it. And with too much hard work in front of you, you might not also have the time and space to be truly brilliant.

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.

Scarlett O'Hara . . . I'll think about that tomorrow. XOXO,

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Consolidation is good. If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less too.

One thing on your list to worry about. Put all your worry into that one thing. Worry about it as much as you like, as much as you need to. But only that one thing. Anytime any of the other things flits across your mind, take that concern and channel it into your one thing.

that was how Penn lost the argument regardless because of course you could uproot a whole family of seven for the needs of just one of them because that's what family means.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion ... if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.

Focus means saying "no." Jobs focuses Apple's limited resources on a small number of projects it can execute well.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else. Jobs doesn't direct animated movies or woo Wall Street. He concentrates on what he's good at.