Priorities Quotes - Page 5

• The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Civilization, People, Library

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• It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.

  J.D. Roth

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• People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.

  Herb Kelleher

  Practice, People, Personality

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• The highest priority you can have is education.

  Charles Schumer

  Highest

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Lists, Example

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Men, Two

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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• the urgent crowds out the essential.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Essentials, Crowds, Urgent

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.

  Jean Houston

  Laughter, Ideas, Giving

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

  Archie Manning

  Perfect, Decision, Effort

  "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

  Sarah Kay

  Educator, Highest

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

  Andy Stanley

  Generosity, Important, Wherever You Are

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Generosity, Giving

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Country, Thinking, Common Sense

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• I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Independent, Self, America

  "A War Tat is Finishe". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

  Roger Scruton

  Education, Mean, Understanding

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Christmas, Party, Giving

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• If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a little cross in a ballot box, etc, does not represent your view. It is an act of desperation.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Views, Doe, Needs

  "UN Expert on Democracy Highlights Importance of Free Expression, Information". news.un.org. October 28, 2013.

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• Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Real, Democracy

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.

  Dan Maffei

  Class, Effort, Looks

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• Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.

  Kenneth Boa

  Practice, Perspective, Shapes

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• Once you're a mom, all of your personal desires come secondary as the survival of the child becomes your life's priority, which leads you to worry each day and every night the little one turn out right.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Mom, Children, Night

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

  Michael Pollan

  Different, Ethical

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Jobs, Kindness, Men

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.28, Lantern Books

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