Quotes About Prioritization

Go to hell, I'm reading. ~Archie Goodwin

My dinner's in an hour, and I don't want to waste time flopping around in a mire of inanities.

Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.

I no longer want to postpone anything in life. That urgency, that purpose, has really changed my life.

I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

But a deep walk with God does not come effortlessly. If it did, many more people would have one. First, you must decide you're unwilling to remain where you are. Second, you must be prepared to pay a price. Will you rise earlier so you can spend unhurried tome with Him? Will you forgo comforts and pleasures so you can focus on your walk with Him?

There is no way to satisfy the desires of all the people who clamor for their time, so leaders must subjugate their schedule to God's will and invest themselves in those activities and projects most critical. Unlike

It's easy. Make every second count.

Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

To Save Time is to Lengthen Life," proclaimed the Remington Typewriter Company.

It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.

When the world was ending the first time, Noah took all the animals, two by two, and loaded them aboard his escape craft for evacuation. But it's a funny thing: He left the plants to die. He failed to take the one thing he needed to rebuild life on land, and concentrated on saving the freeloaders!

It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.

Because—and don't let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

So principle number one is 'seek first the kingdom' with every choice. The second is 'forgetting what lies behind, press on toward the mark of the high calling of God." These two will help us make the right choices

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first

Blades before babes, you know what I'm saying?

The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.

Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.