Shirley Conran Quotes

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

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

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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

Time management is really key for me.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Time management is really important.

Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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 maximizing the time we have.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.