Quotes About Prioritization

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

you'll learn the critical difference between the paralyzing restrictions of choice and the freeing concept of focus.

Chi ti ama c'è sempre, c'è prima di te, prima di conoscerti

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

If you can't afford it, you can't have it.

From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in my life waxed and waned, but writing, I discovered during my restructuring, was my real core. Not any relationship. Not any love. Not any person. I had become more selfish and less accessible. I ceased to be the universal mommy of the tribe. I wanted to see people when I was done with my writing for the day, and not in the middle of my work time.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

But one does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger. I would have loved to place that in the jewelry box of my memory.

If it's important enough, I'll make the time. If not, I'll make an excuse.

Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you're saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you're saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.

it was about making the time. And there's always more time than we realize

It's never about having the time, it's about making the time.

The key to demolishing the time excuse is to first embrace the fact that everything you're doing with your twenty-four hours is a choice. Your choice. A choice that you make and a choice you can change.

No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you're making the wrong choice.

Put your Body First!

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.