Agendas Quotes - Page 36

• I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.

  Gary Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Doe

  157 Copy quote

• No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Stupid, War

  6 Copy quote

• The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  America, Musician, Jelly

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Kids, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Winning, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I'm actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Stuff, Hearing

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with

  Charles Correa

  Attitude, Years, Body

  49 Copy quote

• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

  4 Copy quote

• Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of...
  Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Miracle, Inner Peace

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 30, 2014

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 31, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses.

  Kenneth Atchity

  Editing, Two, Decision

  4 Copy quote

• I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Want, Advantage

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda.

  Mike Huckabee

  War, Iraq, Made

  5 Copy quote

• These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

  Kenneth Ehrlich

  Music, Feels, Performers

  4 Copy quote

• As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

  Bobby Morley

  Race, People, Humans

  Source: collider.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

  Michael Horton

  Criticism, Church, Reform

  12 Copy quote

• I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

  Robert Atkins

  People, Trying, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

  Mike McCurry

  Party, Struggle, Class

  6 Copy quote

• It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

  Alan Ball

  Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.

  Rachel Dratch

  Real, Eye, Issues

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Ego

  36 Copy quote