William Arthur Ward Quotes
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
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I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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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.
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I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.
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We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.
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Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
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I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.
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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
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My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.
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The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
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Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.
