708 Quotes About Priorities

The results of taking on too much is that nothing gets done. Or it doesn’t get done well.

What's important to you may mean nothing to me and what's important to me may mean nothing to you. And that's okay.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

Time kills essence! Don’t give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now!

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. If you neglect your health or your career, you slip into the second category—stupid—which is a short slide to becoming a burden on society.

Because IT people can see so much, it is their responsibility to influence investment priorities, not just execute on priorities set by internal business partners.

I was thirty years old and still living by the seat of my pants. I probably should have had my life together a little bit more by then. But the thing was, my friends all had these stressed-out lives, and they came to our place and it felt like we were just living this laid-back, beautiful, no-stress life. We made being poor look fun.

Actions make priorities evident

I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right.