Amartya Sen Quotes

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

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

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.

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

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

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

Live now. Procrastinate later.

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.

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)