Priorities Quotes - Page 34

• Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

  John Hartford

  Focus, Different, Pieces

  11 Copy quote

• These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every partner in the value chain including airports and air navigation service providers.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Airports, Battle, Cost

  4 Copy quote

• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

  7 Copy quote

• Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

  Maggie Elizabeth Jones

  Bridges, People, Focus

  4 Copy quote

• Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.

  Darren Clarke

  Boys, Priorities In Life, Okay

  7 Copy quote

• That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

  Tom Segev

  Attitude, People, Childhood

  4 Copy quote

• The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to constituents and start talking about investments that have to be made in upgrading the networks.

  Mufi Hannemann

  Communication, Talking, Safety

  4 Copy quote

• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  John W. Snow

  Economic, Economy, Ability

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Justice, World

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Top Priorities

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

  David Shibley

  Blessing, Numbers, Glory

  David Shibley (1997). “Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest”, Sovereign World Limited

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

  Chalene Johnson

  People, Way, Firsts

  14 Copy quote

• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  Carroll Smith

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

  12 Copy quote

• In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Religious, Being Cool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

  Boman Irani

  Suffering, Roles, Stories

  4 Copy quote

• Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, May, Firsts

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.106, Princeton University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

  27 Copy quote

• During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, United, Determine

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

  Bode Miller

  Athlete, People, Want

  4 Copy quote

• on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Design, Realization

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

  4 Copy quote

• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source