Quotes About Prioritization

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

?fadesi güç ?eyler dü?ünüyorum. ?eyler... ?eyler.' Durur, kafas?n? toparlama?a çal???rd?. 'Çok saçma ?eyler, çok önemsiz ?eyler de dü?ünüyorum. Kafam hiç durmadan çal???yor. Önemli, önemsiz: ben s?raya koymaya f?rsat bulamadan büyük bir h?zla geçiyorlar. Geriye yaln?z yorgunluk kal?yor. Okumal?y?m ve bütün bunlar? unutmal?y?m.

some of the stuff you mourn isn't worth the energy. Life will be full of many other things to distract you and cause worry.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

A person either disciplines his finances or his finances disciplines him.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4