Precedence Quotes

• Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  Nick Cave

  Australia Day, Happened, Australian

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• It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

  Howard Carter

  Sight, Vision, Precedent

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• In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

  Hiroyuki Asada

  Heart, All Things

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• Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Religious, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 14, 2013

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• There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

  William Glasser

  Funny, Jobs, Learning

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• The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
  other efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Priorities, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

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• Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Depression, Fun, Business

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• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Education must precede motivation.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2017

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• Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

  Herman Kahn

  Healthy, Resources, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.34, Lexington Books

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• An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.188

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• When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.19, Penguin

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• If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

  Anne Lamott

  Regret, Writing, Heart

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• You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Attitude, Fall, Childhood

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Ideas, Numbers

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.243, Penguin

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• Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

  Alex Garland

  Travel, Heart, Broken

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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• Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Facts, Recognition

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Clouds

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• Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

  Don Henley

  Wind, Singers, Sometimes

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

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• A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

  William Greider

  Country, Giving, Profound

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• My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.

  Lexa Doig

  Loved Ones

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fashion, Ambition

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