Quotes about Prioritization

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

If your family matters most to you, when you think about all the choices you've made with your time in a week, does your family seem to come out on top? Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

Given that sacrifice deepens our commitment, it's important to ensure that what we sacrifice for is worthy of that commitment, as the church was for me and Annie. Perhaps nothing deserves sacrifice more than family—and not just that others should sacrifice for you, but that you should sacrifice for your family

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.