Quotes About Prioritization

I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.

There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.

Not every clocktick needs a martyr.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.

As a consequence of this common play of our minds, don't we all tend to fill up our days with things that just have to be done and then run around desperately trying to do them all, while in the process not really enjoying much of the doing because we are too pressed for time, too rushed, too busy, too anxious?

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

Never put business before family.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.