Priorities Quotes - Page 3

• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Firsts, Problem

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• The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

  Stephen Covey

  Volleyball, Thinking, Essence

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• I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, Focus

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

  Thomas Sowell

  Politics, Election, Problem

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• You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Making A Difference, Degrees

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

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• Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

  Larry Winget

  Important, Instant, Knows

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• The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Priorities In Life, Enemy

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.191, Mango Media Inc.

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

  Stephen Covey

  What Matters, Doe, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

  Charles Hummel

  Time, Focus, Done

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• Resolve to perform what you ought;
  perform without fail what you resolve.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Failing, Exam

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.68

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• Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Civilization, Important, Energy

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

  Plato

  People, Care, Young

  Plato (2010). “The Last Days of Socrates”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Organizational

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.71, Studio Beckett Publications

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• In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

  Alan Lakein

  Focus, Lists, Time Management

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• No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

  Brian Tracy

  Technique, Matter, Masters

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Blessed, Honor, Identity

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• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

  William Arthur Ward

  Graduation, Wise, Encouragement

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• There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

  Eric Zorn

  Change, Talking, Growth

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• We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Money, America

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• Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

  Marilu Henner

  World, Evolve

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• In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Misery, Made

  "Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams".

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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