Quotes About Prioritization

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

Energy, Not Time, Is Our Most Precious Resource

business life. Believe it or not, they're more important to your future than the president of your company. This bit of knowledge has always seemed obvious, yet many new managers spend almost all their time planning their upward communication and give only a passing glance to the people who really control their future.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

missing, intangible, undefinable "something" that we only know exists because we don't seem to have it. "Something to do" represents the investment of the most precious commodity that we all have—our time. We all have the same amount of hours and minutes each day. Success and happiness hang in the balance based upon how

I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys.

The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.

Squeezing the most out of life takes a little executive planning. I used to say to the children when they were growing up, "If you have twelve things to do, and twelve hours to do them in, don't spend the first ten hours doing just one thing or you'll find yourself in an awful mess at the end of the day. Plan. And everything will get done.

I've heard of men who were permanently stymied in their careers because their wives flatly refused to leave their home towns. That's not right. A man's job has to come first and women have to draw on their natural adaptability.

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet.

we do need to learn how to say no, but only so we are able to say yes to God when he wants to give us an assignment.

You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. LUKE 10:41–42

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Tanr? bize iki yuvarlak organ verdi: biri oturmak, di?eri dü?ünmek için. Ba?ar?m?z hangisini daha çok kullanaca??m?za ba?l?.

Why is it," an old news anchor growls, "that out of all the terrible news in this terrible world, we care so much about this one downed plane and this one little boy?

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

Ta?u esmu egoists, tur tev taisn?ba. Es tev saku, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej, t?p?c, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej. Es dom?ju par sevi. Tu man esi tuv?ka nek? paša meita.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.