Priorities Quotes - Page 40

• Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Jobs, Keys

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• Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Children, Women, Training

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• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Men, Benefits

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

  Julian Baggini

  Nice, Animal, Hammers

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2009.

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• The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Good Life, Keys

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Maturity, Long

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• Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

  Kate Braverman

  Men, Years, Vision

  Kate Braverman (2011). “Palm Latitudes: A Novel”, p.36, Seven Stories Press

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• The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

  John Irving

  Children, Couple, Divorce

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• Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.

  Claudia Gray

  Looks, Genius, Said

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• Talon glanced wistfully at his drink as he debated what should take priority. 'Coffee... Daimons... Coffee... Daimons...

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Coffee, Drink, Embrace

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.427, Macmillan

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• Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Resilience, Desire, Want

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty". Book by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Confusion, Choices

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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Godly, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Support

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• I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Different, Would Be, World

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.319, Scholastic UK

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• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  Edward B. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mother, Men

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• We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
  Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Country, Business

  "Jimmy Carter on The American Dream". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Reading, Night

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• ~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

  Teri Hatcher

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• ~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

  Ellen Pompeo

  Baby, Husband, Parenting

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Peace, Passion, Promise

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• By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Peace, Government, Order

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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