Quotes about Priorities

How do you know something is an excuse? Ask yourself, "Would it stop me from doing something I love to do?" If it wouldn't, it's an excuse.

Improving your abilities in high-priority areas is always a good investment in yourself that will pay off in the long run.

Vision: How does this problem affect where we're trying to go? [Your Response Here] Priorities: Are my problems taking me or the team away from our priorities? [Your Response Here] Values: Are my values or my team's being compromised by this problem?

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

I'm not sure if Mehta knows this. One thing he does know are the left's political priorities, and he shows by this statement that he's willing to go to bat for them, even where it makes no sense. That's why this Asian Indian guy puts on a sombrero.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.