Quotes about Prioritization

God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.

This passage is not encouraging unwise activity that overloads your schedule with church events and obligations. Nor does it ask you to turn normal relational moments into abnormal witnessing encounters.