Quotes About Prioritization

And, Jake, there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?

there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?

The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

H. P. Barker warns: It is positive disloyalty to seek our crown before the King gets his. Yet this is what some of the Christians at Corinth were doing. The apostles themselves were bearing the reproach of Christ. But the Corinthian Christians were "rich" and "honorable." They were seeking a good time where their Lord and Master had such a hard time.10

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Someone asked a concert violinist in New York's Carnegie Hall how she became so skilled. She said that it was by "planned neglect." She planned to neglect everything that was not related to her goal.

On my regularly scheduled days, I made sure to free up as much time and mind-space as I could for thinking. If you haven't gotten serious about tightening up your calendar, now is the time to start. Do you really need all those meetings? Are there ways to minimize the length of essential meetings and still make progress?

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

In busy times there is also a temptation to let investments such as training take a back seat to getting the work out the door. Only adherence to the firm's principles and values prevents opportunistic behavior that may have short-term benefits but long-term adverse consequences.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

The answer is not more hours, it's less bullshit.

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that's amazing," he explains. "It's certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

There is always money for war. You never hear political leaders say they can't go to war because the country can't afford it. They claim not to have money for the poor, homeless and hungry, but war? It's never a problem.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.