Top 100 The Primary Quotes
#1. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
#2. The primary criterion for determining our walk with God is the knowledge of His love.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Sam was alternately distant and clingy and mean, because I am the primary person he banks on and bangs on. I stayed close enough so he could push me away. Sadie slowly floated off.
Anne Lamott
#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. The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
John C. Maxwell
#6. The question is the primary form of communication for little kids.
Jim Gaffigan
#7. rationalist believes in reason as the primary source of knowledge, and he may also believe that man has certain innate ideas that exist in the mind prior to all experience. And the clearer such ideas may be, the more certain it is that they correspond to reality. You
Jostein Gaarder
#8. Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
Frederick Lenz
#9. The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
#10. When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
Charles Glover Barkla
#11. Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.
Rush Limbaugh
#12. If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
Max Burns
#13. The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Can emotional love be reborn? You bet! The key is to learn the primary love language of your spouse and choose to speak it.
Gary Chapman
#15. The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#16. Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
Bell Hooks
#17. Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
Tahir Shah
#18. The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.
Richard Price
#19. The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
Fabrice Grinda
#20. The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
Albert J. Nock
#21. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.
Wesley Hill
#22. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#23. English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.
Henry Rosovsky
#24. Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.
Keith Teare
#25. I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
Leon Panetta
#26. One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
Richard Hofstadter
#27. The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#28. Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#29. One conclusion is becoming more and more evident: The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people, to make sure that they actually want to do all that stuff. And doing all that stuff requires motivation.
Jurgen Appelo
#30. America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.
Dennis Prager
#31. The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Lee Iacocca
#32. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James Rowland Angell
#33. Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.
Sathya Sai Baba
#34. Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Arthur Capper
#35. Clearing up your weaknesses is one of the primary reasons we're here.
Robin S. Sharma
#36. The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
Elliott Chaze
#37. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
Sean Covey
#38. The primary theological fact about prayer is this: We address a triune God, and our prayers can be heard only through the distinct work of every person in the Godhead.
Timothy J. Keller
#39. Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
Gottfried Leibniz
#40. I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.
Elise M. Boulding
#42. One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record ... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.
Jonathan Ames
#43. The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
#44. One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#45. This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.
Dean Koontz
#46. The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary victims of cyber intrusions. And they also possess the information, the expertise, and the knowledge to address cyber intrusions and cyber crime in general.
James Comey
#48. Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
Simon Sinek
#49. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.
Justin Menkes
#50. It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists ... and I never stopped asking questions.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
#51. I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.
Ilchi Lee
#52. When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.
Patrick Henry
#53. The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.
Jane Jacobs
#54. The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
#56. If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.
N. T. Wright
#57. The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.
Madeline Hunter
#58. I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
#59. City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
Bruce Babbitt
#60. The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
Northrop Frye
#61. Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman
controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.
Jim Clyburn
#62. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.
Evan Sutter
#63. The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#64. The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.
Henri Peyre
#65. The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Havelock Ellis
#66. Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other but never to the point of self-sacrifice.
Phyllis Chesler
#67. When I'm choosing projects to be a part of it's always a combination of so many different things. The primary thing is the director. But a very important element is, is it different enough from anything else I've ever done, or what I've last done.
Helen Mirren
#68. Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably," he wrote. "There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate.
Erik Larson
#69. The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
Evelyn Underhill
#70. The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Seneca.
#71. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Scott Adams
#72. The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.
Robert Kiyosaki
#73. The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.
Judy Woodruff
#74. Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
Ravi Zacharias
#76. That's why I think that cultivation, 'becoming a real human being,' really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a scale never required before. It's a very old idea that may actually hold the key to a new age of 'global democracy.
Peter M. Senge
#77. The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.
Sai Baba
#79. The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#80. So the moral of the story is that the primary ingredient for a successful nation is guns.
Cory O'Brien
#81. Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
Alexander Payne
#82. The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens fun, enjoyable and doesn't require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is the child and families typically do all they can to make sure the children have fun.
Richard Hastings
#83. Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.
Stephen Jay Gould
#84. The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'
Dave Barry
#85. The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!
Bruce Lee
#86. What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.
Gerry McGovern
#87. You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.
Leymah Gbowee
#88. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
William Osler
#89. Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
James Bovard
#90. When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.
Rick Scott
#91. The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
Diablo Cody
#92. Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.
Joseph Leon Blau
#93. What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
Eugene Jarecki
#94. The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.
Rush Limbaugh
#96. Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.
Peter McWilliams
#97. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.
Mark Fuhrman
#98. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#99. The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.
Gary North
#100. Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay
William Faulkner
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