Priorities Quotes - Page 19

• In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Divorce, People

  "Our Endangered Values". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. June 2, 2006.

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• One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

  Jerome Ringo

  Color, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

  Denis Waitley

  Ultimate Goal, Managers

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• What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project.

  Kris Kidd

  Unique, Numbers, Skills

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• Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

  Essence Atkins

  Opportunity, Challenges, Reform

  "Essence Atkins ‘Are We There Yet?’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say that's a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else.

  Walter E. Williams

  Thug, Issues, Firsts

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• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Organization, Foundation, Individual

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Earthquakes, Issues

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

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• You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.

  Nita Leland

  Creative, Top Priorities, Development

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.

  Cara Santa Maria

  People, World, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

  Helene Grimaud

  Interesting, Different, Realization

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Reality, Order

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• I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance.

  Asa Hutchinson

  Religious, Freedom, Thinking

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• The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

  Alan Johnson

  Government, Office, Long

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• To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

  Gerard Houllier

  Team, Winning, Player

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• I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.

  Simon Kinberg

  Stars, War, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Style, Evangelism

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• I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Heart, Lasts

  Ronald Reagan during Presidential Debate with Jimmy Carter, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 28, 1980.

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• I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

  Dolly Parton

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

  Brian Tracy

  Focus, Important, Negative

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.120, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Giving, Choices

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

  Dean Spade

  Military, Names, Immigration

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

  David Suzuki

  Should, Biosphere, Dies

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