Priorities Quotes - Page 29

• The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Love Life, Lessons To Be Learned

  David Jeremiah (2013). “Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God”, p.43, David C Cook

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• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Grieving, Giving

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• It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

  Shalom Harlow

  World

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• I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.

  Ricki Lake

  Sleep, Dancing, Feelings

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• Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

  Greg Norman

  Senior, Tired, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

  Edward Kennedy

  Unfinished Business, Iraq, Office

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  Gary Sinise

  Risk, Acting, Certain

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• We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.

  Emma Bunton

  Girl, Different, Spices

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Suffering

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Roots

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• Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

  Robert Pozen

  Goal, Achieve

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• I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

  Drew Brees

  Running, Team, Long

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• The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

  John Baldacci

  Native American, Community, Administration

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• Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Government, Focus, Tunes

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• The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Nhs, Issues, Ankles

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• There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

  Arlen Specter

  Doubt, Terrorism, Trump

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• I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Nature, Believe, Recovery

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• All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

  Mark Viduka

  Football, Kids, Winning

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

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• With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book”, p.339, Bantam

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• From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

  Kofi Annan

  Keys, Vision, Democracy

  Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001.

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• No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

  Don Henley

  Country, Government, Self

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• The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Fighting, Order, Hunger And Poverty

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• If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Civilization, Understanding

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• I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

  Fergie

  Mean, People, Judging

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