Priorities Quotes

"I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else."

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

“I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.”

“Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.”

"First we eat, then we do everything else."

M. F. K. Fisher

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

Stephen Covey

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

Pablo Picasso

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

Lee Iacocca

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

Charles Buxton

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, given to redeem the human mind from error, there were no need of arsenals or forts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Dale Carnegie

"Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not."

Cal Newport

"Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy."

Jonathan Sacks

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

John Lennon

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

John Trainer

“I don't want to look back and say, "Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there."

“Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.”

“As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to.”

“It's time Congress got its priorities straight.”

“Fame or life, which do you hold more dear?”

“Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximising the time we have.”

“Learn to say "no" to the good so you can say "yes" to the best.”

“No man can serve two masters. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”