Top 100 Quotes About Priority
#1. Okay, listen to me," the old man said, his voice muffled behind his own swath of fabric. "We need to set some things straight before we get up there. We can't let our emotions rule everything. No matter what we see, our number one priority has to be saving as many people as possible.
James Dashner
#2. Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
Bill Huizenga
#3. Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox
#4. It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
Gloria Steinem
#5. Because your child is your first priority, your're more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special. You cut out the bull - that you might fall for if you didn't have responsibilities.
Helena Christensen
#6. 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
#7. Improving your abilities in high-priority areas is always a good investment in yourself that will pay off in the long run.
John C. Maxwell
#8. Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.
Jeff Weiner
#9. My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
Gunther Schuller
#10. Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.
Eddie Gibbs
#11. Organization is a priority for me because it blesses my children. Even without considering the benefits of productivity or efficiency, the stability of my children depends on my organization.
Jamie C. Martin
#12. Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.
David Shibley
#13. Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment.
Derek Prince
#14. Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life ... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
T. Harv Eker
#16. We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#17. Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what's good for all is always its priority.
Ilchi Lee
#18. I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.
Pamela Anderson
#19. My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.
Cliff Curtis
#20. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey
#21. The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.
Ellen J. Barrier
#22. I like to make sure I get enough rest, so I don't make it a priority to go out late night.
Noureen DeWulf
#23. We cannot keep our eyes focused on Jesus while our greed lusts for worldly security. We may go through the motions, but eventually the misplaced priority of worldliness will corrode the soul's joy.
Tony Reinke
#24. Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
Martha Beck
#25. And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.
Patrick Lencioni
#26. All church activities that dilute, diminish, or detract from worship destroy Verticality, deny the priority of doxology, and forfeit what Vertical Church is all about - glory.
James MacDonald
#27. I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.
Chris Christie
#28. To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?
Ivanka Trump
#29. We're going to help DC feel like more of an important priority in Warner Bros.
Diane Nelson
#30. 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
#31. Especially when writers are just starting out, the emphasis should be not only upon what they write, but equally upon the process of writing. A successful class is a class where no one feels that 'writer's block' is a high-priority subject.
Mary Oliver
#32. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
Frank Gehry
#33. Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
Roger Federer
#34. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
Alfred Bester
#35. We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.
Tim McGraw
#36. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.
Steny Hoyer
#37. Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
Shakira
#38. Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.
Penney Peirce
#39. Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.
Stanley Ho
#40. Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.
Tom Barrett
#41. I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.
Augustin Matata Ponyo
#42. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou
#43. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
Barack Obama
#44. It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so
Matthew Kelly
#46. The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
John Ashcroft
#47. Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
John C. Maxwell
#48. If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
Story Musgrave
#49. For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
David Suzuki
#50. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#51. Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.
Jerry Bridges
#52. The first priority is to guard one's own integrity.
Steven Redhead
#53. I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.
Sadie Robertson
#54. But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.
Paul Hoffman
#55. If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.
Adrian Furnham
#56. The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
Thomas Sowell
#57. Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
Andy Grove
#58. I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.
Bob Casey Jr.
#60. I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
Zakk Wylde
#61. My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Haruki Murakami
#62. I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends.
Nolan Gould
#63. Thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.
Osama Bin Laden
#64. In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
Stephen King
#65. 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
#66. My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
Najib Razak
#67. Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.
James E. Faust
#68. Never make someone a priority when they only see you as an option.
Mary Mihalic
#69. Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.
Derek Bok
#70. When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.
Mitt Romney
#71. My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Manmohan Singh
#74. I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.
Evangeline Lilly
#75. I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago
Penny Reid
#76. Coaching is a service. We serve our clients and have their well-being as the higher priority.
Michael J. Marx
#77. Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.
Kendall Jenner
#78. The worry question: "What can I do about it right now?" If I can't do anything about it right now, it is not a priority and does not deserve my attention.
Karlyle Tomms
#79. Happiness isn't always easy," he'd said. "But it's a priority.
Goldy Moldavsky
#80. I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
Gary Calamar
#81. From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.
Denis McDonough
#83. People can say anything, but a person's actions show how they truly feel about you. Actions express priority.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#84. My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.
Sherri Shepherd
#85. In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
Bjarke Ingels
#87. There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
David Lynch
#88. 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
#90. It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.
Stephanie Mills
#91. Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
Tyler Perry
#92. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
Cat Cora
#93. So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
#94. It is the duty of every Muslim to fight. Killing Jews is top priority.
Osama Bin Laden
#96. It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
David Suzuki
#97. In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
Eva Longoria
#98. I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
Joe Baca
#99. It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
Selma Fraiberg
#100. My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
Kyrsten Sinema
