Prioritize Quotes

• People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

  John Maeda

  People, Focus, Done

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Life Changing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.198, Mango Media Inc.

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• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Leadership, Roles, Pieces

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• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• 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 that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Believe, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.224, Mango Media Inc.

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.

  John C. Maxwell

  Keys, Goal, Leader

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• Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.

  Greg McKeown

  Remember, Ifs

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• The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

  Julie Chen

  Needs, Okay, Ifs

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Persistence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Success, Priorities

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 29, 2014

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• Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

  Pat Croce

  Vision, Tasks, Steps

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• Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Priorities, Schedules

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• In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Loss, Energy

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• I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

  Bill Gates

  Magic, World, Problem

  "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

  Andy Stanley

  Discipline, Stanley

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• We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Decisions We Make

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• Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

  Lisa Loeb

  Next Day, Certain, Always Learning

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• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Needs, Messages, Can Do

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• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Focus, Energy

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• I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.

  Zachary Levi

  Destiny, Games, Steps

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• Always begin with the end in mind.

  Ellen Muth

  Goal, Mind, Personal Vision

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