Priorities Quotes

• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Home
  • Past
  • Parent

• Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Thinking
  • Sections
  • Columnists

• We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

  

  Adam Gilchrist
  • Involved
  • Priorities
  • Nuts

• It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Words
  • Action
  • Priorities

• 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
  • Effort
  • Decisions
  • Priorities

• 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
  • Changed
  • Priorities
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones

• Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

  

  Myles Munroe
  • Problem
  • Dreams
  • Pressure

• Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Serve
  • Treatment
  • Enforcement

• Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He is essentially telling American Jews to get lost: 'I have no regard for the president you support and no regard for your own political needs and desires.'

  

  David Corn
  • Political
  • Support
  • President

• Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

  

  William Hung
  • Singing
  • Firsts
  • Entertainment

• The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • People
  • Simple
  • Goal

• No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Matter

• The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Opportunity
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don't really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week's going to be like.

  

  Josie Bissett
  • Kids
  • Acting
  • Priorities

• Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Time
  • Priorities
  • Resource

• Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

  

  Michael Bennet
  • Teacher
  • Priorities

• Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.

  

  Azran Osman Rani
  • Company
  • Priorities
  • Candidate

• I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Priorities

• 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
  • Issues
  • Priorities
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

• I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, “Smokey! I love you! What’s happening with Jacob?” Here’s a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I’m looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward!

  

  Titus Welliver
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Streets

• There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Life
  • Values
  • Priorities

• My number one financial priority is security. Not having to worry about how I am going to meet the bills and not owing anybody anything. I keep my outgoings as low as possible and save as much as I can.

  

  Kate Thornton
  • Worry
  • Financial
  • Security

• The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Children
  • Purpose

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