Quotes About Prioritization

Remember, you're allocating time to write, not finding time to write.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

There are pigeonholes in the brain with labels on them such as: To be looked into when I feel like it; Never to be thought of; Useless to follow up; Contents as yet unexamined; A blind alley; A rich vein, but exploitable only in another existence; Urgent; Dangerous; A hard nut to crack; Impossible; Discarded; Put in storage; None of my business; In my line; A teaser…and so forth.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

you can't say everything, the fact that you have to winnow your thoughts down to the essentials, means that you can get to the heart of the matter quickly.

Det hade jag emot Människosonen. Man ville ju inte säga det rakt ut, men man kunde inte riktigt lita på honom. Han hade liksom för många att ta hand om. Man hade hela tiden en känsla av att när det var som värst, då var det någon annan som kanske hade det värre. Och då blev man ju efterlämnad.

80/20 says 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your efforts, and 20 percent of your results come from the other 80 percent.

80/20 applies to almost everything in business that you can count. â–· Almost every frustration you have in sales has something to do with ignoring 80/20.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

He divided problems into three categories, according to David Gergen, a former adviser from his White House days: easy; hard but doable; and impossible. The first category he left to others, the last he wrote off, and the middle is where he focused his energies.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Better to own a little that is dear to you than have all the potato fields of Sa Pobla.