Quotes on Top Priorities

We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

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.

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

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

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.