Quotes about Prioritization

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.