Thomas Sowell Quotes

If everything is important, then nothing is.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

You don't have to do everything; just do what really matters.

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

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

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

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

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.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.

Education is the number one priority.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

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

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.