A Quote by Robert M. Hutchins

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Robert M. Hutchins

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Robert M. Hutchins
American - Novelist
January 17, 1899 - May 17, 1977

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Stephen Covey

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Stephen Covey

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Edward Hallowell

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Clifford Stoll

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Stephen Covey

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

Nido R Qubein

Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

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. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Brian Tracy

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

Jim Rohn

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.

Gary Zukav

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

Joshua Foer

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Charles Hummel

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

Lewis Thomas

I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.

Ben Schnetzer

I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask me, what is my definition of politically correct. My answer is always the same: the elevation of sensitivity over truth. People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.

Bill Maher

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

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