Secondary Quotes

#1. The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

Ewan McGregor

#2. Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

Sally Quinn

#5. Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Billy Bragg

#6. In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

Dai Vernon

#7. Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

#8. The tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.

Clara Fraser

#9. It was these secondary levels of life, these extrasensory flashes and floating nuances of being, these pockets of rapport forming unexpectedly, that made me believe we were a magic act, adults and children together, sharing unaccountable things

Don DeLillo

#10. On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.

Morris Kline

#11. The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

A. D. Patel

#13. The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

Moby

#14. The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Only enter quotes from notable people. Generally, a person is notable if they have been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.

Testy McTesterson

#16. Prison for the crime of puberty
that was how secondary school had seemed.

David Brin

#17. If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Gene Simmons

#18. Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

William Butler Yeats

#19. I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.

Kiki Dee

#20. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank

#21. The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

Kevin Powers

#22. Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Aldous Huxley

#23. When we neglect God's priority, we become God's secondary.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

Peter Drucker

#25. Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

Narayanananda Swami.

#26. Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).

Daniel Hochhalter

#27. I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.

Chris Thile

#28. It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Gregory Benford

#29. You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

Veronica Roth

#30. It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#31. Of Congress, "party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire ... are but secondary considerations," that "business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.

George Washington

#32. Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

Lacey Schwimmer

#33. Poly isn't about being completely fair for most people. There are some who run it with a near perfect equality, but for most of us there are primary relationships, there are secondary, and even ones less serious than that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#34. There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#35. I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

Sebastian Coe

#36. Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

Piet Oudolf

#37. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

#38. We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Jim Jeffords

#39. If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same level. A social order is not bad simply because it helps one more than the other.

Ludwig Von Mises

#40. Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

George Weah

#41. The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#42. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Stephen Covey

#43. When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

Saffron Burrows

#44. The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.

Larry Gagosian

#45. nobody loves anything more than freedom. Even love is secondary to freedom; freedom is the highest value. Love can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for love.

Osho

#46. She couldn't get past him. After another minute, she screamed, You'll never take me alive! I'll never let you get me to a secondary location!

Shelly Laurenston

#47. I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

Douglass North

#48. No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Christopher Eccleston

#49. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Robert Bateman

#50. Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

Frederick Lenz

#51. The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Havelock Ellis

#52. Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

James Hillman

#53. Would it ... would it be possible for me to speak with them?" "No," the secondary said. In his exalted position, Iblis Ginjo was unaccustomed to hearing such a response.

Brian Herbert

#54. There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#55. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed. The

Brandon Sanderson

#56. Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Rajneesh

#57. My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

Gail Sheehy

#58. Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Jaime Hernandez

#59. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.

Diane Setterfield

#60. God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.

T.D. Jakes

#61. Plot was always secondary in my mind.

Dan Chaon

#62. Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access to ongoing vocational and job training to ensure their skills remain as relevant as possible to African organizations.

Richard Attias

#63. [The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

Robert Kennedy

#64. In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Stewart Copeland

#65. He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her.

Stephen King

#66. My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

Baruj Benacerraf

#67. I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Emmylou Harris

#68. Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

Stephen Harper

#69. When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

Jimmy Carter

#70. My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tracey Emin

#71. I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#72. I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Drew Barrymore

#73. I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.

Scott Lynch

#74. When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

#75. It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Paul Nurse

#76. The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Jim Trelease

#77. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Ayn Rand

#78. Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. (578)

Ayn Rand

#79. Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.

Mark Batterson

#80. Whether it succeeded or not was of secondary importance; first, I had to do it. Then I would experience the fullness of life as I went along. That was my only possible way of living.

Tetsuo Miura

#81. If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

Ernst T. Krebs

#82. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Marilyn Manson

#83. After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

Adrian McKinty

#84. My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

Martin Amis

#85. I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

Brian Blessed

#86. Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

Jason Fuchs

#87. I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.

Tom Ford

#88. I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.

Peter Barris

#89. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Maurice Allais

#90. First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

Elie Wiesel

#91. A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

Barry Eisler

#92. Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

Jim Knight

#93. I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

Maria Conchita Alonso

#94. The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Kurt Student

#95. Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Edward Abbey

#96. In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.

James Arthur

#97. The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.

Joseph Fletcher

#98. To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#99. After all, all human beings are the same - made up of flesh, bone, and blood. We all want happiness, and we all try to avoid suffering. We are the members of one single human family, and our arguments are born from secondary causes. Disputes, lies, and killings are useless.

Dalai Lama XIV

#100. For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary

Julie Lessman