Quotes about Prioritization

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

Apply the 80/ 20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent.

Focus on key result areas: Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

Apply the Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.