Quotes About Prioritization

Pasti ada korban pada setiap peperangan. Tugas seorang panglima adalah memenangkan peperangan, bahkan jika itu terpaksa mengalami kekalahan dalam beberapa pertempuran di dalam perjalanan. Bila aku terpaksa mengorbankan ribuan jiwa demi menyelamatkan jutaan orang, aku akan melakukannya. Kita berada dalam perjuangan untuk hidup. Sebagai pemimpin dari negeri ini aku tidak dapat memberi tempat pada rasa sensitif yang berlebihan.

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.

Is focused on a few important goals (at most), not off chasing every distraction;

In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

There is no time limit for caring. And don't wait for anybody to look for you or ask about you if you don't have time for everything.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

I still get so impatient with the whole time-consuming business of covering up exposed skin that I will buy the first thing that catches my eye, and that when it comes to shoes the first thing that catches your eye is the last thing you should ever put on your feet.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. (SAMUEL JOHNSON)

There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Successful people in particular are susceptible to surges of anything-is-possible. They then plunge into new, seemingly attractive markets hoping to prove themselves to the world yet again. However, it is extremely rare that the same person achieves world championship or wins the Nobel Prize in two disciplines. Danger looms just around the corner if the new activity is too distracting and the core business is neglected.

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.

I used to fully commit to finishing a book, even if I disliked it. But since realizing that I am, in a general way, dying, I've decided there isn't enough time to finish books that weren't meant for me. Who thought finitude could be so liberating?

Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.