Top 100 Quotes About Precedence
#1. The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
Albert Einstein
#2. There was only one four-lettered word having precedence over life itself and it was LOVE.
Faraaz Kazi
#3. I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
Bernard Rudofsky
#4. Perception always makes precedence over reality
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Time explodes everything.
They will seek, we will create, they will find.
Fraser Beath McEwing
#5. We live in a day and time when our rights sometimes take precedence over our pursuit of righteousness, when we get caught in the rush of seeking self rather than seeking God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#6. For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
John Charles Polanyi
#7. Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton
#8. The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk
#9. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.
Lao-Tzu
#10. Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.
John F. Kennedy
#11. One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#12. Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Kobe Bryant
#13. Soul development should take precedence over all things.
Edgar Cayce
#14. The claim that the only constraints on our success are the limits of our imagination, although generally false, has lifted hearts for millennia. Grand visions take precedence over prosaic numbers.
John Kay
#15. The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won't have time to spend.
Nick Harkaway
#17. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.
M.L. Sanford
#18. In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.
Bill Bryson
#19. Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
Barbara Jordan
#20. 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
#21. If everyone's hope were to be realizable with precedence, the law which enables individuality and reasonability will become senseless
Dew Platt
#22. I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.
Richard Serra
#23. Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#24. Precedence exists in humanity as it does with law.
Kat Lahr
#25. A pig whose diet is fifty to seventy percent peanuts grows a ham of incredibly sweet and delicate succulence which, well-cured, well-kept and well-cooked, will take precedence over any other ham the world affords.
Rex Stout
#26. In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
David Korten
#27. The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.
Erich Fromm
#28. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
William Lane Craig
#29. Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.
Whitney Houston
#30. What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
Edward De Bono
#31. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#32. As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Bruce Herschensohn
#33. I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay
The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!
'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
William Shakespeare
#34. None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
Bill James
#35. Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
Ed Parker
#36. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.
Mark Rippetoe
#37. Because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a
friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive
politeness.
Marcel Proust
#38. 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
#39. There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it; - for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed.
Lao-Tzu
#40. Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
Ted Koppel
#41. Everywhere are scattered dreams, each its own antecedent; it's precedence in the possibility of its achievement.
Dew Platt
#42. What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
Oliver Goldsmith
#43. Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Stewart Udall
#44. There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
#45. The teacher's first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It's influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.
Maria Montessori
#46. In other countries, the bureaucracy serves the needs of the people and the state; here, the bureaucracy itself is primary, and it takes precedence over the needs of the people and the state.
S.Y. Agnon
#47. Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.
Michael Foley
#49. That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
Daniel Clowes
#50. Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging
Satyajit Das
#51. The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy'
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC
Ben Bryant
#52. It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.
Aldous Huxley
#53. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
#54. Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#55. We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
Emilio Estevez
#56. Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.
Irwin Corey
#57. This was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her
Grace Coolidge
#58. At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.
Liz Halliday
#59. Aristotle thought place should "take precedence of all other things" because place gives order to the world. Casey tells us that Aristotle claimed that place "gives bountiful aegis - active protective support - to what it locates.
Anonymous
#60. Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
Ravi Zacharias
#61. All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.
Randy Gage
#62. Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
Ezra Taft Benson
#63. Never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Walter Isaacson
#64. With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Laozi
#66. Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart
#67. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.
Fethullah Gulen
#68. People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.
Travis Bradberry
#69. Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace Mann
#70. While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence.
Betty Jamie Chung
#71. Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Niels Diffrient
#72. At the end of the day, we are Christians, not Paulinians, and so where there is conflict between the teachings of Paul and our Lord, then we should give precedence to the words and actions of Jesus.
Kevin Mahoney
#73. Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old
Poul Henningsen
#74. To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Gustav Stresemann
#75. There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.
Joshua Roman
#76. The word Ilaah means something that deserves to be worshiped AND obeyed at the same time. It is not enough to worship Allah through rituals. We have to give His obedience precedence over our desires in every situation of our life.
Nouman Ali Khan
#77. Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair
#78. If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.
Martin Luther
#79. Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. What we have become accustomed to witnessing is a social illusion that takes precedence due to the fact that the process is so intrusive that it becomes difficult to bear witness to the unobtrusive, which is so subtle in comparison.
Lujan Matus
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
Lexa Doig
#84. A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.
Gaston Bachelard
#85. 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
#86. It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
James Bovard
#87. For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
Khaled Hosseini
#88. The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.
Thorstein Veblen
#89. Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
Amy Lowell
#90. Sidney had never been very good at differentiating between tasks that were urgent and those which were important, and often those tasks that seemed urgent, but were not important, took precedence over the duties that were important, but not urgent.
James Runcie
#91. 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
#92. The cosmere, unfortunately, takes precedence over free food. Watch yourself, Dalinar. Life becomes dangerous, and you're at the center of it.
Brandon Sanderson
#93. Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be ... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
Ciara
#94. In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.
Frederick Lenz
#95. The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
Hannah Arendt
#96. In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
Kate Morton
#97. They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!
Margaret Rome
#98. The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman
#99. There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
Agnes Denes
#100. In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.
Hiroyuki Asada
