Priorities Quotes - Page 7

• Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.

  Narendra Modi

  Challenges, Needs, Overcoming

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2014

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• It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Responsibility, Winning

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• My priorities are really about creating balance in my home, making sure that I have enough time with my kids, making sure that I have the time to do the things that I want to do with my career, and to continue to make movies.

  Nia Long

  Home, Kids, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Survival, Church

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Destiny, Cuba

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• The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

  John Wesley

  Goal, Firsts, Life Is

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• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Punishment, Suffering And Death

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• Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

  Elizabeth George

  Reflection, Decision, Choices

  Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.42, Harvest House Publishers

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• Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

  Bill Johnson

  Giving, Obedience, Said

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.50, Charisma Media

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• Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

  Martha Beck

  Attention, Firsts, Should

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• To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Believe, Sleep

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• Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

  Richard Carlson

  Kindness, Integrity, Live Your Life

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

  John R. Leopold

  Safety, Focus, Cost

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• One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.

  Richard Jackson

  Cancer, Kids, America

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Healthy

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• My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

  Debra Messing

  Children, School, Numbers

  "Debra Messing Talks ‘Smash’ Season 2, Sean Hayes, Barbra Streisand And More". Interview with Leigh Weingus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Army, United States

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

  Raymond Geuss

  Mean, Assessment, Europe

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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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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• Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

  Ana Monnar

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Order

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