A Quote by Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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

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

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

Keith Devlin

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

Alex Agase

People spend too much time tasting wine; not enough time drinking it.

Andre Tchelistcheff

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Wendell Berry

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

Harry Redknapp

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

Harold Ramis

I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.

Jose Reyes

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Will Durant

Our time on Earth is already short enough. For me, it's like every single day I try to be as happy as I can. It's crazy to think about. We never have enough time. That's always the thing. We always want to do more. So it's about being able to spend time on the things that are most important to you. Life is a lot easier that way, and obviously life is pretty difficult a lot of the time.

Michael Phelps

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

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

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.