Priorities Quotes - Page 39

• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

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• When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Top Priorities

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

  David Shibley

  Blessing, Numbers, Glory

  David Shibley (1997). “Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest”, Sovereign World Limited

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• If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

  Chalene Johnson

  People, Way, Firsts

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• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  Carroll Smith

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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• In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Religious, Being Cool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

  Boman Irani

  Suffering, Roles, Stories

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• Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, May, Firsts

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.106, Princeton University Press

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, United, Determine

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

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• People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

  Bode Miller

  Athlete, People, Want

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• on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Design, Realization

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

  Cat Stevens

  Space, Looks, Done

  "The Billboard Q and A: Yusuf Islam" by Nigel Williamson, Billboard Magazine, November 17, 2006.

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• For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Positive Energy, Sake

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• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  David Suzuki

  Time, Election, Environment

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Energy, Needs

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• I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

  Taylor Swift

  White, Gloves, Mail

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• I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

  Charlize Theron

  Children, Balance

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from May 05, 2014

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• Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

  Josh Turner

  Children, Your Children

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• We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  New York, People, West Coast

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

  Andrew Weil

  Agency, Citizens, Disease

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

  Arabella Weir

  Class, Goal, Lists

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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