Quotes About Prioritization

About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong.

Cuando empezamos la jomada, hay ante nosotros cientos de cosas que sabemos que tenemos que hacer durante el día, pero, si no las tomamos una a una y hacemos que pasen por el día lentamente y a su debido ritmo, como pasan los granos por el estrecho cuello del reloj de arena, estamos destinados a destruir nuestra estructura física o mental, sin escapatoria posible

Just for today I will have a program. I will write down what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two pests, hurrying and indecision.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

those who understand Jesus and his Father know that provision has been made for them. Their confidence has been confirmed by their experience. Though they work, they do not worry about things "on earth." Instead, they are always "seeking first the kingdom." That is, they "place top priority on identifying and involving themselves in what God is doing and in the kind of rightness [dikaiosune] he has. All

never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time.

Some must die that others may live.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

I had more care upon my head now than I had in my state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I had now a great charge upon me, and my business was how to secure it.  I had not a cave now to hide my money in, or a place where it might lie without lock or key, till it grew mouldy and tarnished before anybody would meddle with it; on the contrary, I knew not where to put it, or whom to trust with it. 

Temptations are like dirty dishes.  There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up.  And there are some who must do them right away.

one hears it a lot on airplanes:Make sure you have own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Loving someone and falling in love are two different things. When you fall in love, you expect love back & your heart breaks but when you are loving someone you are so busy that you have no time to expect anything back.

I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family.

Making food: 1 hour. Eating food: 20 seconds. Washing dishes: never ending.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

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

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do.

"The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn't have something better to do."