Quotes About Prioritization

What's funny is the act of cleaning out my desk takes an hour, yet I've been dreading it for so many damn years. How much time have I wasted in fretting about organizing this instead of actually organizing? I kind of don't want to know.

Mine was an era of children having to accommodate, rather than being accommodated. No parents put their children's tastes and proclivities first. That's a relatively new development.

That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise)

clearly he'd decided that his kid was more important than great sex, a decision Sophie applauded in the abstract but resented in the specific.

You've got to make time. It's important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You're not going to be any good to anyone if you're not taking care of yourself.

Better Peter than me

new technologies are going to make the airwaves "so abundant that there would be no justification for the government to ration access to spectrum or to give some services priority over others."46 In the near future, everyone will be able to share Earth's abundant free air waves, communicating with each other for nearly free, just as we will share the abundant free energy of the sun, wind, and geothermal heat.

Quality time" becomes a guilt-induced euphemism for "not enough time.

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Work first, and then rest.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.

Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.