Quotes About Prioritization

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Are you just going to stand there frying hamburgers while your child could be dying in a fire?

A precept left by Lord Naoshige in his Writing on the Wall reads: Matters of Great Importance Should Be Decided Lightly. Master Ittei commented: Matters of Minor Importance Should Be Decided Seriously.

If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Why are churches so unproductive? They try to be all things to all people. They can't say no. They do too much and end up doing a lot of things poorly. They keep adding ministry programs but never prune the ineffective ones. But parachurch organizations do one thing—such as hunger relief, housing for the poor, vaccinations, or Bible translation—and do it very well. Productivity fires the imaginations of men.

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

You can't expect people to build their lives around you

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.

Every day spent producing reports is a day less spent on analysis and projects." There

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

As Stone says, "This always on, anywhere, anytime, anyplace era has created an artificial sense of constant crisis. What happens to mammals in a state of constant crisis is the adrenalized fight-or-flight mechanism kicks in. It's great when tigers are chasing us. How many of those five hundred emails a day is a tiger?" Despite

a few must die so the rest can live in peace, well, such is the ugly but unavoidable cost of living in a civilized society. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Saving and investing itself is simple if we apply the 80/20 principle. I

If the 80/20 principle says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts,

Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Just go. When you're on your deathbed you're gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting on other people.

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

For some teams, a nice, well-formed, and deep backlog gives them a sense of control of their destiny. They can see the work ahead, they can plan for current and future work, and they have a sense of comfort in knowing that they are always working on the next higher-prioritized thing.