Priorities Quotes - Page 38

• Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively...If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful

  Stuart McRobert

  Powerful, Growing, Legs

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• It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

  Akon

  Firsts, Selling, Music Is

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• The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

  Aphex Twin

  Artist, People, Want

  Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

  Carson Daly

  Nbc, Jimmy

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• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  Ziggy Marley

  Soccer, Sports, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

  John Frusciante

  Kind, Sometimes, Pure

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• Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  World, Saving, Save The World

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• I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Successful, Self, Organization

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• It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Picks

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

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Groups, Politics

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• The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

  Billy Tauzin

  Humble, New Orleans, Water

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• Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs in the apparel and textile sector.

  Michelle Rempel

  Jobs, Commitment, Government

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• People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

  Erich Fromm

  Philosophy, People, Life And Death

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

  John Hartford

  Focus, Different, Pieces

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• These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every partner in the value chain including airports and air navigation service providers.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Airports, Battle, Cost

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

  Maggie Elizabeth Jones

  Bridges, People, Focus

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• Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.

  Darren Clarke

  Boys, Priorities In Life, Okay

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• That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

  Tom Segev

  Attitude, People, Childhood

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• The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to constituents and start talking about investments that have to be made in upgrading the networks.

  Mufi Hannemann

  Communication, Talking, Safety

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• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  John W. Snow

  Economic, Economy, Ability

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Justice, World

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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