Maxine Peake Quotes

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.