If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Things of the first importance are few; let appreciation be rare.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

It is easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Thing about emergencies,” he said, sounding weary. “Rarely occur when they’d be convenient.

I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

It's not important to get things done, it's important to get the right things done.

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.