Task Prioritization Quotes

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

Be quick but do not hurry.

Organize and execute around priorities.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Work first, and then rest.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

I'm kinda doing a lot of stuff.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.