Quotes About Prioritization

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

Donating your time to an unworthy situation is spending your emotional cash to bankrupt your dreams ~Bluenscottish

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

There are a lot of people out there that don't value their family the way they are supposed to. I value mine above everything else.

Roma come before everything else.

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.

The reality of my life is it's about 25 percent music, and everything else I do is so I can get that 40 minutes later to go play. And it is unquestionably worth every second of it.