Quotes About Prioritization

pero no puedes juzgar a quién amas más por la cantidad de tiempo que los amas.

Is a known fact that in life, you can't have everything

I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody's first choice. "You might think you like me, but you don't. If you did, you wouldn't still like her.

Maybe," I say, just to be nice. It'll be too much of a pain to bring all my supplies downstairs and get set up again. I'm in a good rhythm right now.

And you need to know what you're saying no to.

And you've been a big help, but I think there are other things you could be focusing on that are more worthy of your time.

It's better if the guy loves the girl more, because if she loves him more, it never works out good for her.

Whether before breakfast or after, morning or evening, the point is we must all arrange our schedules to provide for this daily intake of the Word of God.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits. The things that get measured may draw effort away from the things we really care about. And measurement may provide us with distorted knowledge—knowledge that seems solid but is actually deceptive.

Measuring the most easily measurable. There is a natural human tendency to try to simplify problems by focusing on the most easily measureable elements.1 But what is most easily measured is rarely what is most important, indeed sometimes not important at all. That is the first source of metric dysfunction.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

Would you rather have food or dental work? Pay your mortgage or your electric bill? Make a car payment or buy medicine? Cover rent or student loans? Purchase warm clothes or gas for your commute?

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

With marketing, with customer acquisition, with accounting, I first look and say, "Hey, what's taking people's time? What can we automate?" If I can't automate it, do I really need it to be done? If I do need it to be done, all right, then we'll open a req.

It's better to be young because you can spend a lot more nights, very, very late. Because you have to get things done, and there's almost no other way to get around that. When the times come, they are critical.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

Wie gesagt, das Leben muss noch vor dem Tode erledigt werden.

Aga nii see inimene on: hindab ainult seda, millest ilma jääb.

But in a situation like Sixth Army's, the German military code demands that when lives are at stake, the officers must take second place to the men. It

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.