Quotes About Prioritization

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Don't let people with no life ruin yours.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

But we can't allow personal matters to interfere with revolutionary duties. Especially for an important political assignment like the exhibition.

Everyone's always concentrating on first love. No one seems to care much about second love. or third. Or Fourth love. First love, that's the one that's always celebrated and documented like it never happened before to anyone, anywhere.

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

In my early years of iterative development, I thought timeboxes were actually about time. What I came to realize is that timeboxes are actually about forcing tough decisions.

Project leaders need to focus on value in several ways: value determination (with product owners), value prioritization (backlog management), and value creation (iterative development).

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.