Priorities Quotes - Page 32

• If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

  Story Musgrave

  Communication, Numbers, Information

  Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Curves, Years, People

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Mom, Being A Mom, Want

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Peculiar

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• I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them.

  Victoria Moran

  Simple, Thinking, Giving

  Victoria Moran (1997). “Shelter for the Spirit: How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic World”, Harpercollins

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• Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

  Larry Page

  Heart, Numbers, Ends

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• You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

  Gordon Bethune

  Speed, Should, Infrastructure

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• What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  People, Survival, Firsts

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• I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and uninterrupted. And then sometime each week devote an extended time - at least one hour - to reconnect with your soul. How and when you do it is a very personal thing, but plan it because solitude doesn't happen on its own. Make it a priority in your life.

  Mac Anderson

  Soul, Solitude, Pockets

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• Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Dream, Powerful, Live Life

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

  Midge Decter

  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

  Bo Sanchez

  Dream, Development, Destination

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• Make Money a CENTRAL priority.  This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Greed, Making Money, Force And Power

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• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  Bear Grylls

  Weather, Survival, Firsts

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• The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.

  Michael Franti

  Spiritual, Military, Needs

  "It's Never Too Late". "Michael Franti & Spearhead" live performance at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in New York City, www.youtube.com. March 8, 2007.

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• I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney Spears and the war in Iraq. Where's the substantive news? Where's the Zach Braff coverage?

  Zach Braff

  War, Iraq, Watches

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• For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Christian, Children, Commitment

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Appreciate, House

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• Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

  Edward Kennedy

  Reality, Care, Pay

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• I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.

  Debbie Gibson

  Daughter, Mother, Crazy

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

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Time Management, Substitutes

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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• It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

  Jeremy Lin

  Night, Important, Church

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Our Lives, Values

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• If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Firsts, Married

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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