Quotes About Prioritization

A man at the apprenticeship stage of a promising career may pursue only brief affairs, figuring that he will be able to attract a more desirable long-term mate later on, when his career is closer to its peak.

She knew what my mother did not: either you want a clean floor or you want to use a mop, but you can't have both.

The younger an ingredient, the more highly it was valued, thus the baby chicken, the baby spinach, the newborn asparagus, each pale stalk as slender as a fang.

Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.

only carry about a hundred

learning not to give a f*ck and not to focus on the non-essentials and the superfluous is the way forward.

Grant me immoderation, the only way to save what we can of what we're given. The hell with equity.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else

For the first time in months, she got dressed without attention to anything else except the basic practical covering of her body. She didn't do her hair. No make-up. No contact lenses. No heels. How much time she saved! How much more she would get done in this new life!

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

Sometimes I ask myself if I'm accepting too many films.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.