Quotes About Prioritization

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

When you are the Bachelor, you have very limited resources and time to get to know these women, and I think you try to use everything at your disposal.

I don't think I'd like to be that guy who does disrupt training. I always feel the team comes first, and that's the way it is, and me being a disruptive influence, because I'm not playing, doesn't help the team.

Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

Many times I have gotten distracted. That has hurt or impeded success.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

You're always having those life-skills type discussions about decision-making. It's just making sure you're making good decisions and going about your business. There are distractions in every city.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was training, and tennis was a big part of my life at that point.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I have divided my week among my various businesses. So that way, I am able to concentrate on all of them as well as my film work.