Quotes about Prioritization

Chunk your to-dos down into bite-sized pieces.

Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.

Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn't within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.

I guess I made a resolution years ago that I would only do things that were only really important or really fun.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

the activity of my life ("doing" for Jesus) began to eclipse the contemplative dimension of my life ("being" with Jesus).