Top 100 Quotes About Priorities
#1. Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.
Michael Douglas
#2. The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.
Alex Pareene
#3. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
Gary Keller
#4. And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#5. Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.
Chris Brogan
#6. Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
building better lives.
Nelson Mandela
#7. They all choose priorities. Even they got hurt and hurt each other, at the end they all choose whats important for them
Winna Efendi
#8. I will focus on taking care of myself and helping others. I will put more effort into planning for my future. I will make healthy lifestyle choices so I can feel good every day. These are the priorities that matter.
Susane Colasanti
#9. If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people's priorities.
Donald Rumsfeld
#10. That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.
Dee Dee Myers
#11. You have to choose your priorities, or they will choose you.
Jeff Goins
#12. We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side
Jason Furman
#13. The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
Leland Ryken
#14. They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.
John McCain
#15. I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
Harry Hopkins
#16. Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the 'real me,' and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?
Mishell Baker
#18. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
#19. When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia
(former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on
drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike
figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.
Merlin Olsen
#21. Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
Quentin Bryce
#22. When we make decisions that honor our dreams and priorities, we also make choices about what we won't prioritize. We must embrace these choices as well.
Sarah Hackley
#23. The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.
Tom Segev
#24. We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.
Tom Raabe
#25. I've learned that just because Noah doesn't take everything seriously doesn't mean he doesn't take anything seriously. His priorities and strategies are different from mine, not necessarily better or worse.
Kendall Ryan
#26. I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities.
Arthur C. Clarke
#27. I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. 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
#29. Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.
Martin O'Malley
#30. As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#31. Actually, highly successful people don't think about time much at all. Instead, they think about values, priorities, and consistent habits.
Kevin Kruse
#32. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.
Stephen R. Covey
#33. We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.
Oscar Arias
#34. You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history
Lois P Frankel
#35. I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#36. Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
Stephen Covey
#37. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..
Crestless Wave
#38. I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
Pamela Anderson
#39. Eric believes in the three-week rule: When you start a new position, for the first three weeks don't do anything. Listen to people, understand their issues and priorities, get to know and care about them, and earn their trust.
Anonymous
#40. My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.
Blake Judd
#41. When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.
Curtis Jackson
#42. Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.
Stedman Graham
#43. Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
Penelope Cruz
#44. Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.
Max Lucado
#45. [Barak Obama] just said children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement - meaning deportation - as long as they've not.
Rush Limbaugh
#47. Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.
Billy Graham
#48. Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.
Nirmala Srivastava
#49. Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.
Stephen Covey
#50. If you're at zero backlog, it's a whole lot easier to change priorities.
David Allen
#51. Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
Kate Braverman
#52. What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
Peter MacKay
#53. There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Eric Zorn
#54. By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.
Patty Murray
#55. 'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.
Danny Meyer
#56. If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.
Kelli O'Hara
#57. If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.
Victoria Osteen
#58. The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#59. suggest that the millennial generation, deeply affected by the Great Recession and a stagnant global economy, has begun to shift its psychic priorities from material success to living a meaningful existence.
Jeremy Rifkin
#60. I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it ... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
Zach Johnson
#61. Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#62. I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
Peter Roskam
#63. Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your desires and discipline.
Stephen R. Covey
#64. But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
Jared Polis
#65. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.
Eric C. Sinoway
#66. Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#67. Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.
Susan Davis
#68. We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
Fred Thompson
#69. At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own perception. She held a copied version, an interpretation of him, filtered through the matrix of her priorities and desires.
Therefore, surely, he only held a copy of her.
K.J. Bishop
#70. Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities
Stephen R. Covey
#71. Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities ... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.
Sulak Sivaraksa
#72. Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
Les Brown
#73. Between the calendar and checkbook, ones priorities are laid bare.
L.R.W. Lee
#74. My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.
Jewel
#75. Humans have a tendency to overcomplicate simple things because we overthink them. But if you take a step back and remember your priorities, it becomes easier to make a decision. When
Lilly Singh
#76. NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.
Carson Daly
#77. There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.
Peter Drucker
#78. Well hello, honey, I've been out boozing and whoring. I know, my priorities are pretty off.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#79. I don't use the Internet, as I don't like living with lots of distractions. I have tried, but I found it a hindrance. as my sense of priorities goes out of the window and it pulls me out of my writing, particularly with email. I'd sit there for hours just replying to emails.
Michelle Paver
#80. Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap
Jayne Ann Krentz
#81. No one is too busy, it's just a matter of priorities.
Unknown
#82. Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.
Atul Gawande
#83. The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
Samantha Power
#84. We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Marian Wright Edelman
#85. I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
Angela Merkel
#87. Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
Jean Houston
#89. What I have learnt in life is that,
What we are today, are not the compromises or sacrifices we made in life.
We are the product of passion in priorities we make to enrich our as well as other's life. Indeed, you are only growing and evolving in your life with your tough decisions.
Rachana Shakyawar
#91. I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f
ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.
James Cameron
#92. In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
Betsy Beers
#93. I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.
David Brooks
#94. If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.
Chalene Johnson
#95. I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.
Cheryl Richardson
#96. 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
#97. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
Archie Manning
#98. When the girl you're casually screwing and dating starts to look like she was literally sent from Heaven, you better reassess your priorities before someone gets hurt. Especially when she speaks like the spawn of Satan.
Andrea Randall
#99. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
Alan Cohen
#100. To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
Charles Stanley
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