Quotes About Prioritization

What's it to me if you love me or miss me or need me when you are doing nothing to be with me if you can't allow me to be the love of your life I will be the loss of your life instead

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...

As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

The advice we give others, then, has two big advantages: It naturally prioritizes the most important factors in the decision, and it downplays short-term emotions.

We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

this message is that skin damage is cumulative and irreversible. So we've rewritten the message to stress that point and eliminate nonessential information. We've done this to illustrate the process of forced prioritization; we've had to eliminate some interesting stuff (such as the references to melanin) in order to let the core shine through. We've tried to emphasize the core in a couple of ways. First, we've unburied the lead—putting

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.

We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

The Combat Maneuver Training Center, the unit in charge of military simulations, recommends that officers arrive at the Commander's Intent by asking themselves two questions: If we do nothing else during tomorrow's mission, we must _________________. The single, most important thing that we must do tomorrow is ________________.

Make it concrete: Look back over your schedule for the past week and ask yourself, What, specifically, would I have given up to carve out the extra three or four or five hours that I'll need?

Peter Bregman, a productivity guru and blogger for the Harvard Business Review, recommends a simple trick for dodging this fate. He advises us to set a timer that goes off once every hour, and when it beeps, we should ask ourselves, "Am I doing what I most need to be doing right now?

What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

I'm sorry. I can't do this. I thought I could but I can't. My favorite professor at the university said he gets his piece of therapeutic information every time he boards an airplane. The flight attendant says if the oxygen mask drops down, be sure to put on your own before helping anyone with theirs. I'm afraid I haven't put mine on.

I think when you're dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can't let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.