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Priorities Quotes by Stephen Covey
- If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire…
- 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…
- Priority is a function of context.
- Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
- Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is…
- It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
- What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?
- Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
- When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
- The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their…
- Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
- You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you…
- If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
More Priorities Quotes
- My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. — Michelle Bachelet
- I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children. — Victoria Beckham
- The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger
- It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose. — Tony Blair
- Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity… — Derek Bok
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you… — Bono
- Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life.… — Alain de Botton
- President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks… — John O. Brennan
- Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration? — Corrine Brown
- I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to… — Jessica Alba
- No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life. — Sandra Bullock