Quotes About Prioritization

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.