Quotes About Prioritization

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

On a date, if you look more often to your phone than to your girlfriend/wife, then you have a problem... but if it is your partner who is messaging you, than you both need help.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Choose your battles wisely.Unless you have a very highchance of victory, spare yourenergy and walk away

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave -- but there's no need to be in the passing lane.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.