Quotes About Prioritization

The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

For me, spending an evening with someone is something I value and don't take lightly.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

People are more important than fussing over preparations. Why, I haven't even been good company for Wynn, I realized, looking back in humiliation over some of our last evenings spent together. Well, I would change that. After all, a marriage was of far more importance than a wedding.

So, if there's a choice between the trimmings or you—then it's easy to leave out the trimmings.

It was much easier to clean feet than to clean shoes.

I didn't love Jane in that swept-away sense. I didn't put her needs first or think about trying to surprise or delight her. I didn't take time out of my daily life to find that "special something" for her.

For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate possible causes of failure. The

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.

I'm sorry," I said. "It's been a tough day, and my nerves are in shreds. I need to get home and have a long, hot bath and then a martini." Thursday5 thought for a moment. "After you've drunk the long, hot bath," she observed, "you'll never have room for the martini.

If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways.

What on my to do list is possibly more important than taking the time to anchor myself in my own presence?

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one's life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.

A leader must always put the clan's interests before his own; it is the first thing you must learn. That is why self-control is so essential to a leader. The clan's survival is his responsibility. A leader has less freedom than a woman, Broud. He must do many things he may not want to. If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate. Do you understand?

nunca hará mal alguno a otro hombre, ni aun a cualquier ser sensible, salvo el legítimo caso en que, hallándose comprometida su propia conservación, se vea forzado a darse a sí mismo la preferencia.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.