Quotes About Prioritization

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.