Quotes About Prioritization

More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it's okay sometimes not to answer their phones, and they must learn that their time–not just the quantity but its quality–is important.

When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week.

You can only truely get over someone when you find someone else that you care about more!

Este mai de dorit minimul de cunoa?tere a lucrurilor foarte importante decât cunoa?terea socotit?, foarte sigur? a lucrurilor foarte m?runte.

If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than in here.

First, be effective. Then be efficient.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Don't think a man don't care about one goat because he's got a thousand of 'em," Hosteen Nakai would say. "He's got a thousand because he cares more about goats than he cares about his relatives.

Tomorrow's medicine is today's research. That is why the question of how we allocate resources to research is at least as important as the question of how we allocate resources to health care itself.

This may sound like a huge task, but it's not. It's simply a matter of learning to recognize the things that don't matter so that you can let them go.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

We arrive home in the evenings with little energy left for our families. We spend too little time thinking strategically and long term, too little time taking care of ourselves, and too little time simply enjoying our lives.

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

Hon tvättade varje fönster och ordnade bokhyllan, inte efter författare denhär gången utan alfabetiskt. När det var färdigt kom hon att tänka på ett bättre och personligare system och började ordna böckerna efter sig själv, de hon tyckte mest om på översta hyllan och de värsta längst ner. Hon upptäckte förvånad att det inte fanns en enda hon tyckte om.

People don't say "Work is money." They say "Time is money." We all instinctively understand this, but we also know deep down that there is something wrong with it.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

But this will never happen again, he vowed. If I ever find someone else to care about, I will not let my mission come first. I will break any order. I'll endanger my own tribe if I have to. I will make up for this somehow. Someday.

We have a strong and natural tendency to look out for ourselves before others, even when those others are part of our families and our teams.

There is always that little voice in your head saying, "What about me?" Sometimes that little voice drowns out the cry of the team, and the collective results of the group get left behind.