Priorities Quotes - Page 7

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.

It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

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.'

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you, as a doctor, decide what to fight for. And when we do that, we often end up identifying limits to the kind of care that people want. One's assumption is that these people are going to live shorter lives, but what we're doing is protecting quality of life. In doing so, you sometimes end up helping people live longer. Certainly, you help people live better days and with more purpose in their lives.

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?