Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. — H. L. Hunt
Be prepared for negotiation by first, knowing what you really want. List your underlying interests in the order of priority. — William Ury
You must also give mental and physical fitness priority. — Jim Otto
The third principle is to resist the allure of middling priorities. — Oliver Burkeman
Short Priority List Quotes
Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. — Scott Caan
Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure. — Irwin Corey
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. — Ian Hutchinson
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will. — Greg McKeown
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. — Dale Carnegie
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. — Zig Ziglar
Just list the One Thing you really want to accomplish today. — Leo Babauta
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful — Robert Kiyosaki
Priority List Image Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Priorities Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. — Nick Saban
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J. R. D. Tata
Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education? — Craig Kielburger
Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions. — Amartya Sen
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority. — W. Edwards Deming
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world. — Brian Armstrong
Not Priority Quotes
Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ. — Henry Blackaby
Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment. — Derek Prince
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important. — Mark Manson
It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order. — Kid Rock
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. — Nicola Sturgeon
I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
If everything in your life feels urgent, it means nothing is. Not everything in life can be a ‘priority’. Master the skill of identifying what really matters & what is truly essential. Start putting your focus and energy there and watch your life start to change. — Rangan Chatterjee
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing. — Naval Ravikant
I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. — S. Truett Cathy
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Top Priorities Quotes
I believe that Elon Musk understands this important dynamic. For goodness sake, one of his top priorities is saving the planet. — Cathie Wood
If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities – with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole – is a good place to start. — Gad Saad
The people of the UAE, and striving to empower them, always has been and continues to be our nation’s top priority. Their happy lives remain the basis of all our future plans. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Your inbox is a to-do list other people can write on. Focus on your own to-do list. Stay on the offensive.
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. — Dallin H. Oaks
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' — Haile Gebrselassie
Let your heart guide your passions, let you mind focus on priorities.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. — Stephen Covey
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. — William Arthur Ward
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. — Vincente Fox
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. — Vicente Fox
First Priority Quotes
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities. — Ezra Taft Benson
If a man told you that a dog had run off with your ear, would you go after the dog or search first for your ear? — Moroccan Proverbs
Make sleep your number 1 life priority. It may seem counter-intuitive at first. Once you achieve reliably high quality sleep, you'll wonder how you ever did life before in such a stupor. — Bryan Johnson
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.
I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don't have the well-being of the people as their first priority. — Nayib Bukele
The first 4-6 hours of my day are dedicated to moving the needle in the important aspects of my life. — Alex Hormozi
A friend is someone who is there for you when she'd rather be anywhere else.
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy. — Irina Bokova
As prime minister, I will pursue three early priorities. Firstly, I will get Britain working again. I have a bold plan to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform. — Liz Truss
Cleaners do the hardest things first, just to show there’s no task too big. — Tim Grover
I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list. — Michelle Obama
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet. — Sarah Beeny
When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list. — Michelle Obama
Social media isn't about technology. It's about relationships. 3 things you can do today: 1. Spend 5 minutes getting interested in someone on social media, rather than trying to get them interested in you.2. Post it forward e.g. list three people whom you admire. 3. Network before you need your network.
As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities. — Paolo Gentiloni
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. — Graham Coxon
We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not? — Jimmy Carter
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path. — Richard Branson
Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. — Robert Breault
In all planing you make a list and you set priorities. — Alan Lakein
Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources. — Nick Clegg
I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now. — Jane D. Hull
This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets. — Jack Abramoff
When struggling to get out of bed in the morning due to pain and exhaustion, the last thing on the priority list is going to get a blow dry. — Yolanda Hadid
When we listen, it's not linear, it's 360, and it's in a time-space continuum, so you don't have to create a list of priorities, because it's all important. You can deal with everything at any given time. Not only that, but it happens very simply, without effort. — Gordon Hempton
While I haven't read economist Robin Hahnel's work, replacing capitalism would be at the very bottom of my list of priorities - to be considered only after everything else had been tried. Improving our capitalistic system however, is at the top of my list and is of course the major theme of "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism." — John C. Bogle
Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right. — Moon Jae-in
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim
In an economic recession, naturally, when you ask people to list their priorities, they're going to place a higher priority on the immediate economic situation. — Al Gore
One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues. — Jerome Ringo
Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list. — Tristan Prettyman
Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy. — Bob Dylan
A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve. — Helen Andelin
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists. — Shawn Achor
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy. — Bill Gates
I think Supernatural is the last WB show that's still on the air. It came from The WB and transitioned to The CW. I've been with The CW from the start of The CW, and it says a lot for our network and for our studio that they stood by the show and continued to keep the show high on their priorities list. — J. Robbins
The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for the newly elected Congress. High on the list is fundamental tax reform. In addition to overhauling the federal tax code, however, Congress should rein in the Internal Revenue Service. — Cleta Mitchell
The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes. — Tom Segev
Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all. — Jasmine Guinness
Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. — Nora Roberts
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list. — Arabella Weir
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