Quotes About Prioritization

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

I have been offered films as well, but it's better to do good television shows rather than a small role in a film.

That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.

I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.

I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.

Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

You need to find a way to work together as parents. You have to find a way to love your kids more than you hate each other.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

Secondary choices are always subordinate to a primary choice. Often there is no reason to make such choices outside the context of the primary choice that calls for them. Athletes and musicians may not enjoy practicing long hours, but they do so just the same; not out of duty, obligation, or any other form of self-manipulation, but because they are making secondary choices consistent with their primary choice to be able to perform music or excel at sports.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

And remember, you can always want something you need but you don't need everything that you want.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

Good bosses focus their attention, and their people's efforts, on the small number of things that matter most. The best bosses learn when they can and should ignore the least important demands from others. But some demands can't be avoided even though they have little, if any, impact on people or performance. In such cases, it might be wise to do a quick and crummy job so you can 'check the box' and quickly move on to more crucial chores.

Bosses of the most productive work groups confronted problems directly and quickly...And quickly move on to more crucial chores.

D]oing management work requires dozens -sometimes hundreds - of brief and fragmented tasks each day.

When someone at the Directors' College asked Campbell about the most crucial skill for a senior executive, he said it was the rare ability (which Jobs had in spades) to make sure that the short-term stuff gets done and done well, while simultaneously never losing sight of the big picture.