Priorities Quotes - Page 34

• The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.

  Tom Segev

  Eye, Europe, Class

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Love You, Giving

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• I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

  Ginni Rometty

  Years, Together, Strategy

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• There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get our priorities mixed up. And, sometimes, we forget how far we’ve come. But life always has a way of nudging you to remind you about these important things.

  Cassia Leo

  Appreciation, Hands, Perspective

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• Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

  Grant Cardone

  Jealous, Lovers

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2017

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• No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Littles, Enough

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.114, Routledge

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• When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
  we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

  Chris Christie

  Children, Believe, Dollars

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• Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.

  Chuck Smith

  Christian, Prayer, Doors

  Chuck Smith (1980). “Effective Prayer Life”

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• I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

  Maureen McCormick

  Differences, Imperfection, Joy

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• The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

  George Gilder

  Males, Roles, Poverty

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.104, Regnery Publishing

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• Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Office, People

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• A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

  Merlin Mann

  " Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities" by Merlin Mann, www.43folders.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

  Merlin Mann

  Couple, Crazy, Lying

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2009

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Relax

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• If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Father, Flow

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.13, Vintage

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• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Friends, Keys, Order

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  Vicente Fox

  Government, Average, Years

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• The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority

  David Miliband

  Mean, Oxygen, Water

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• By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

  Dan Lipinski

  Cutting, Environmental, Veteran

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• You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma

  Rachel Wade

  Thinking, Perspective, Sobriety

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• The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest traditions of your continent, the arrival of a child is always a gift, a blessing from God. Today it is high time to place greater emphasis on this: every human being, every tiny human person, however weak, is created 'in the image and likeness of God' (Gen 1:27)

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Acceptance, Blessing

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• Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

  Chuck Yeager

  Fun, People, Important

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Acting, Way, Advertising

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• Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

  Jeff Gordon

  Cancer, Kids, Research

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