537 quotes about priority follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

We knew the Hawaiian culture is very specific, especially when it comes to the dance. We made it a priority to get it right.

Christopher Chase

The Champions League was the top priority but coming back from two goals down is tough. We threw away our chances of advancing in the first leg.

Gianluigi Buffon

We're looking for better ways to hire local veterans. Federal law gives priority to veterans and special consideration for combat veterans.

Dave Easter

But it's not about the money. It's getting the opportunity to play in a very competitive league and hopefully getting back to a major league organization. And that's my priority.

Hal Lanier

McDonald?s priority focus continues to be on our customers. We listen closely to them and welcome constructive feedback. We welcome an objective and fair discussion about issues important to our customers.

Walt Riker

The loan officers said the home (loan) applications take priority. I was told as much, ... I can give you a loan to rebuild your house, but what will you do in the meantime? To me they should have equal priority.

Tony Martinez

Our first priority is to help affected families, deliver relief and assess the loss so that further help can be provided.

Vijay Bakaya

The peace process in the Congo is my priority.

Louis Michel

We absolutely have an alternative. We want to turn over the fighting in Iraq to the Iraqis and we want to deal with the War on Terror as our number one national security priority.

Steve Murphy

The additional preschool funding is excellent news. Even though full-day kindergarten is a constant priority of the State Board of Education, we recognize it is very expensive to fund on the state level.

Lisa Gross

The widespread financial difficulties being experienced by our citizens are a good indicator that the fair would not and should not be a top priority as individuals rebuild their lives.

Don Thompson

The first priority is to accommodate those teams that have lost the most amount of games.

John Gillette

Jobs are a priority for every country, ... Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

Paul Wolfowitz

My first priority will be to maintain continuing with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era.

Ben S. Bernanke

Defensively, we return a lot of players, but as far as I'm concerned how we defend as a team is what is going to make or break us. We have a lot of players with individual creativity. The transition from offense to defense is what we're trying to highlight as a priority.

Tony Bauman

Environmental protection was considered a high priority since the very beginning of the games' organization.

Ugo Pretato

The first priority is to make sure the people have what they need and that there is not a lapse in their coverage.

Alice Stewart

If you have a site that's contaminated, the first priority is getting it cleaned up. They're less likely to let anyone interfere with the process as long as it's moving forward.

Julia Huff

Protection of confidential customer information is our No. 1 priority, and we are taking aggressive action to ensure that any threat to privacy is eliminated immediately.

Kent Nakamura

He is an industrialist and his first priority is his business interest, so it matters very little if he had resigned.

Raj Babbar

This is like a seal of approval for our education program. This says we are about excellence and continue to make excellence a priority.

Gwen Cote

Give participation in the inquiry the highest priority.

Andy Card

The priority is to get out of the offer period, so we can get on with running the business.

Clara Furse

A recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.

Jim Peters

The life and physical integrity of the hostages has absolute priority. We hope that by tomorrow (Saturday) a solution will have been found.

Martin Jaeger

Nokia's main priority must now be to stabilise its market share by Q3 and hope that it can reverse the current decline in Q4.

Ben Wood

We don't allow them on the streets and we don't allow motorized vehicles on our trails or in the parks. If it becomes a nuisance, the police might have an issue with it, but I don't think it's a priority for them.

Dave Cubit

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Dennis Lillee

The health and safety of our customers is our highest priority.

Papatya Tankut

Clearly the Gulf Coast and our only energy coast is a priority, but I don't believe we have to sacrifice every other good civil works project around the country.

Mary Landrieu

I own a business, and my wife was expecting our first child, and boxing out of Nashville is pretty hard anyway. And I just had a lot happening and my family takes priority, ... There weren't any great opportunities happening, and I was just focusing on my business and my family.

Frank Wood

I'm definitely going to be coming into sport. It will be in Australia. Basketball will hopefully be the priority.

Andrew Bogut

We're disappointed but not down hearted. Our top priority this term was promotion and we have achieved that.

Andrew Powell

The key here is that all three agencies have the recovery of the lynx as a priority. We're working cooperatively on the issue, and that's the best way to proceed.

Jim Sanders

We have given this highway a high priority.

Sun Heping

It's not my priority to get kids a Division I ride. It's just a plus when they get that opportunity. Kyle has a special talent and he is fortunate to be able to use it to get an education. He has put in a lot of hours and he deserves it.

Thurman Bell

We just didn't have it as a high priority.

Joseph Bernier

Everyone feels like it will probably be the first priority because of the concerns that have been voiced.

Hugh Mcguire

It's always been a priority that Duke be engaged with the public schools in an effort to strengthen them. We have a really large number of people who live in Durham; therefore, the quality of education is very important because it affects our employees.

John Burness

We realized that it would be hard to get enough people. Given the fact that we have no idea when the union would call a strike, our first priority was that we have an adequate number of responsible adults to be able to administer the curriculum.

Lorna Ho

We've got a lot of extraordinary things happening in Midtown because the city has made it priority No. 1. There's been a directed effort to improve employment and community opportunities, and some of the fruits of that labor are being borne.

Dave Goodwin

Cleaning my room is definitely my last priority. I usually put if off until it gets so bad that I can't find the things I need for class.

Becky Burns

We will now use competitive strategies everywhere possible placing priority on the use of local and small disadvantaged businesses as we move into the long-term recovery phase.

David Paulison

It's not like my top priority. It's not an obsession.

Kale Liechty

It is the board's top priority to move these departments to the new location as soon as possible. We are exploring all options to make it happen as fast as we can, while still being financially responsible.

Gaylan Scofield

My priority is to study new works.

Lang Lang

In a dictatorship where Gadhafi controls the strings, he can make sure that the things he wants to give priority to are given money. There are no constraints on his ability to assist movements that he considers useful.

Paul Wilkinson

He needs to greatly increase the school funding. The priority for those parents is for the schools to get better.

Billy Easton

What the city needs to do is make this a priority.

Phillip Lee

The agencies know it's coming from the governor, so it's given priority.

Jeannine Larue

The board and I have made succession planning a priority. Well, it paid off!

Leonard Roberts

It's hard to believe that Congress could see more tax cuts for the rich as a priority.

Robert Mcintyre

Further improving our compliance is the highest priority of the bank.

Rijkman Groenink

They've never justified the need for this extra platform. The priority is the commercial, and then the history is secondary.

Anthony Gardner

Our priority is to get much needed aid to those undiscovered communities as soon as possible.

Chris Mcdonald

The first priority is to run the yellow buses and then it depends on what happens with the fuel supply.

Steve Bryant

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Kelly Golob

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

Graham Taylor

More than one billion people around the world suffer from neurological conditions and diseases, and finding new, more effective treatments for patients is a high priority for Pfizer research and development.

John Lamattina

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Johnny Thomas

Our priority is to open the roads and remove the dead and the injured.

Aftab Sherpao

Once the decree is issued, we'll take our place in the priority system.

Tom Florczak

That is not a huge deal to us, the streak I guess. Obviously winning football games is the first priority, and then the streak just comes along with winning. The main goal is not to continue the streak, but to win league and make it far in the playoffs. That is our goal.

Corey Moran

The agenda from developing countries will have to be a priority.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

Naming a replacement will be a top priority.

Denny Lynch

Congressman Miller sees this as a top priority. The promise is that your child is going to be treated with respect, and that these are the people meant to help them. In fact, the opposite is happening.

Tom Kiley

Those who work will be given priority.

Raj Thackeray

If we're going to be here, we need to make the place a better place and protect it for the next 50 years. Different people have different ideas of what priority it should be in.

John Jorgensen

We get lazy and complacent and just don't want to do it because it's not our priority. Well, look at Katrina.

John Hernandez

Brunswick continues to make community relations a top priority, and in the appointment of Adrian, who has nearly 25 years of experience at the company, we are demonstrating an even greater commitment in this important area that impacts us all.

Dustan E. Mccoy

After reviewing all of the information, I felt this was the best decision for the game, ... The safety of our student-athletes, coaches and fans is our priority.

Mike Slive

Everything going through the port is so vital, so you know they have to get it up and running as quickly as possible. It's such a high priority item.

David Marshall

The conference is in a crisis and has been for many years. So our first priority [this year] must be to keep it alive.

Jürg Streuli

My vision is to have an advisory board for everything that we as a commission defined as a priority. That way, we will really know that we are representing our citizenry when we implement a new ordinance or make a change. I think that's important.

Mayor Dennis Mulder

The government considers transportation workers a high priority.

Jennifer Morcone

This is the No. 1 problem and should be the No. 1 priority.

Colin Smith

The top priority is to listen and to work with others to get working on this huge deficit. We gotta try to solve it.

Richard Vernon

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Brandon Powell

Our first priority of course, is the safety and welfare of our guests.

Bill Warren

Think of the person with the to-do list. That person is convinced he never gets anything done, which gives him a slight underlying anxiety, sapping mental energy, which means he is not as efficient as the other person. The person with the priority list and holding pen knows that most days he gets pretty close to everything done. That frees up more mental energy to do more of the important things.

Jim Steffen

That may cause difficulties for the Palestinians, but the priority is to ensure Israeli security.

Amos Gilad

That's an additional set of eyes that we have. We all have a new No. 1 priority, which is protecting our shores. We are all on the same page now, and I firmly believe that is working much better.

Luis Diaz

The No. 1 priority with me is getting more people moving across the state on safer roads.

Sen Clark Jenkins

We as an agency have made this a major priority, and we are looking forward to being able to update our fleet and to know that our officers are patrolling in vehicles with this extra protection.

Becky Mendez

It?s our number one priority to operate safely.

Anne Ainsworth

Our first priority is to provide information to U.S. citizens to try to meet their needs.

Phil Reeker

Defense is the first, second and last priority. And when you can shut someone down, it makes everything a lot easier.

Koby Abney

That's a priority in the immediate term.

Blake Irving

It's a great hazard for the citizen, especially if they think it's being treated as a priority.

Jean Kvidera

We always have the health and safety of our athletes and of our competitors as our top priority.

Tim Calderwood

Our number one priority is to expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we do research.

Rick Rashid

Our No. 1 priority was to keep our team intact, and we did that. I think the team feels it's good. It sees the talent level we have. You can't fool players. Players know players. I think our team feels we're going to be a good team.

Terry Donahue

Bob Iger's highest priority in our view is to re-establish Disney and its affiliates as the pre-eminent source of animated film.

Laura Martin

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

Dan Montgomery

The first priority of Hilton and its hotels is the safety of our team members and guests.

Kathy Shepard

This plan is welcome. But fundamental problems relating to the discipline, training and accountability of the integrated brigades need also to be addressed as a matter of priority.

Kolawole Olaniyan

Ensuring world class data security in rapidly developing markets is a top priority for Visa and its members.

Peter Maher

You might want to buy a new dress, but when you know your priority is to send the kids to college, it makes it easier to make that choice.

Judi Martindale

It is our priority to figure out whether the data used in the experiments had been falsified or not.

Roe Jung Hye

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

David N. Leff

I was calling him off because normally the center fielder has the priority there. I don't think he heard me, but that's not his fault.

Drew Stubbs

It's a very ambitious deadline. The governor has given us direction to make it a priority.

Jude Walsh

Playing 40 minutes is a priority. We have to try and play like that to prepare for the playoffs because they're right around the corner.

Nykesha Sales

Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

Maggie Jones

I'm her son and I'm obligated to do this, ... Let's first find out if my mother is his daughter. The next priority is justice for her, whatever the court decides, whatever rights she has as an heir, and any economic entitlements.

Ray Fernandez

Bringing Brock back was a major priority for us. Brock will play an integral role for this team not just this season, but in the future as well.

Rob Katz

With a business like that, the first priority is to get control of things and keep costs down. That's not going to be glamorous in Germany at all, it's going to be about screwing things down tightly.

John Raymond

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

Grant Fairley

We've been so shocked by what the governor has said that we've made it our first priority to speak to the state.

Sharo Atmeh

What we kept hearing really validated our event concept -- the fan is at the top of our priority list. There is too much competition for their entertainment needs, so we have to give them an unforgettable experience... NOT just a concert.

Charlie Jones

No government has an option but to have medically acceptable benchmarks, at least in those priority areas.

Ujjal Dosanjh

When we got priority through downtown, it pushed us into a comfortable ranking.

Gary Thomas

Clearly women's health is a high priority for Wal-Mart. We are actively thinking through the issue.

Dan Fogleman

The silver lining is that for many organizations this is the first time they've taken a hard look at their information systems. What they have, what is a priority, whether they need what they've got, all that. It's a good opportunity for them to do an inventory.

Jack Gribben

In such a budget, should NASA receive almost a 6 percent increase? Is it the highest domestic spending priority? I don't think so, and I doubt my colleagues will either.

Sherwood Boehlert

It's an incredibly high priority for the Democrats.

Tom Kiley

Saving time is absolutely essential in emergency care. Sunrise ED Manager 4.5 XA lets clinicians know, at a glance, what needs to be done and in what priority to help them save time and lives.

R. Andrew Eckert

The safety of our staff is a top priority, and we take this incident very seriously.

Brian Hauswirth

Everything is on hold. It's just something they don't call a priority.

Dorothy Miller

Our highest priority that we talked about before the game is to be active and aggressive on the defensive end. At times, we did that … but it's still disappointing. Right now, we're just back and forth.

Doug Mitchell

The United States is no longer enemy No. 1, as you know, it's priority No. 1, ... And this is the only difference: semantics.

Oleg Kalugin

I reluctantly agreed to pull half our transmission line crews off other projects and made getting the transmission lines to the Collins substations a priority.

Jim Compton

I like to call it paying yourself first. It means putting yourself as a priority.

Barbara Steinmetz

The pass rush was our No. 1 priority, ... Improve the pass rush. It`s really all I thought about some days. You saw what happened last year when we didn`t have a pass rush.

Jay Moore

This action is being taken as a cautionary measure to ensure the protection of public health, ... Public health is our number-one priority, and it is our number-one concern.

Ann Veneman

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Sandy Smith

It's not cheap, but the No. 1 priority for us is making sure people don't get killed on the highways.

Jim Saunders

Get Right. We need priority status, because the kid is the future of Hip-Hop. And that's not coming from me, I heard it from come from a lot of people.

Dj Kay Slay

Our highest priority in the FBI is preventing another terrorist attack. But we're not out there hiding under every rock and peeking around every corner to do it.

Brendan Roberts

This being a grazing area, they tend to get grazed. The priority is finding and removing anything dangerous near houses, where curious children play.

Brad Lasater

As a channel-oriented company, Symantec places a high priority on partner feedback.

Julie Parrish

Today, the airline industry is calling on President Bush to make aviation a national priority and to speed up improvements in our aviation infrastructure.

Carol Hallett

The police chief has indicated that this investigation is a top priority. We are working right now to develop a timeline of what happened.

Sherry Llewellyn

We've identified this as a top-priority issue.

Linda Rosenstock

Our priority remains to rein in this disease. We are beginning to see some improvements in the control of foot-and-mouth disease but there is still a very long way to go.

Ben Gill

I'm not surprised affordable housing popped up as a priority (in the assessment).

Mike Stanfield

Playing is a priority for me. Everyone has worked so hard to get where we are and I felt like I owed it to the team to stay in there and play my best.

Michael Graff

This was identified as being the highest priority from the community's point of view.

Andrea Gilbert

In my opinion, you either realize that exercise is really good for you and you make it a No. 1 priority, or you don't.

Cris Slentz

That was really the top priority.

Dr. Terri Agee

We need to make public health a priority.

Peter Walker

The mayor says it's not business as usual, and that ethics are a priority. If I was mayor and didn't work to remove him, I would be on the front page.

Rep Christopher Caruso

Our increased level of investment in marketing and sales, with the priority on key growth drivers, resulted in a sales growth of 21 percent in Pharmaceuticals in the U.S.,

Daniel Vasella

Our priority is to protect the public health, and increase the awareness of the potential health risks associated with this practice.

Robert Kenny

There's never a sense of priority in this town, there's too much political pandering.

Dan Moran

Our first and gravest priority is simply to ensure that no other Marine is asked to give his life until this aircraft is safe and until it is determined to be ready for the Marine Corps' mission.

Brian Nelson

That was our main priority. We had two very successful and well-attended job fairs that we were able to provide for our employees.

Virginia Perkins

My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Browns successful.

Randy Lerner

This group is now a priority... Money is still available for adults with reading and writing difficulties.

Bill Rammell

The single highest priority on my list.

Jack Williams

Well, there is some priority decision-making that will have to be done by the board when we re-adopt the long-range transportation plan next year.

Dennis Dix

Protecting consumers from service disruption is the Federal Communications Commission's first and highest priority.

Michael Powell

I will continue the course of my predecessor, ... For me the customer is the priority. My motto is: The worm must taste good to the fish, not the fisherman.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

The Department of Energy is a big bureaucracy.... Energy efficiency hasn't been an agency priority, it hasn't been a political priority, and so the issue has been neglected.

Katherine Kennedy

If we don't make (children) a priority we will fail because the world is going to be left to them. The greatest resource we have is people, not machinery, and children need to be our greatest priority.

Don Whitney

I felt very good about our discussions. I feel like we've had a very positive dialogue. Obviously, it's a tremendous priority.

Jim Schaus

When you feel strapped and are living from paycheck to paycheck, saving money for anything - particularly retirement - seems impossible. But you must make saving a priority, because the benefits of starting early can't be overstated.

Beth Kobliner

If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.

Donald Adams

The team around me has marketed me pretty aggressively, ... but my priority is my golf. If I can get more fans out for me and following our tour, it's just going to grow and grow.

Natalie Gulbis

We all realize that high school reform must be a priority.

Bob Corkins

The priority is making sure the next of kin are aware and giving support to the bereaved.

Karen Williams

My priority is providing the maximum academic challenge for each student in the district regardless of their ability.

Lindsey Tippins

My parents placed a high priority on education of their children, as their whole generation has, ... They saw the value of the opportunity that it presented to my generation.

James Kramer

We will be trying to keep people alive, ... That's it, priority number one.

Howard Williams

Back then, youth issues were not very visible even in the nationwide organizations. Youth had consistently not been a priority in any of the Pride celebrations and we thought, here's a great way to help.

Chris Dyer

Both teams fought pretty hard. We came out on the losing end. We've got a lot of things we need to fix as coaches and as a team. That's going to be our priority next week.

Greg Leib

My first priority now is to correct the inadequacies that were going on.

James Link

My priority will be the championship.

Sebastien Loeb

These will get priority for testing.

Upma Chawdhry

Our goal is to determine if we can detect any pollutants entering our lakes. With more than 1,018 acres of lakes, ensuring their protection is a priority for us.

Tommy Bailey

We don't have any judicial explanation for this war. No one knows who started it ... The first priority is to stop killing people, regardless of their nationality.

Alexander Lebed

Joe's signing was a priority and we are again making clear how much he means to this franchise. He is among the upper echelon of players in our league and he just continues to get better.

Mike O'connell

We're looking at an innovative non-standard way to float the company, that may involve giving existing shareholders priority in any offering. We're not ruling anything out.

David Orr

It was a high priority for us to find a better way to identify the beginning of the season. We want fans to understand that college basketball doesn't start in February and March.

Greg Shaheen

This area of the state has got to be a No. 1 priority if we're going to win in the future. Republicans rule this roost no more.

Jason Willett

And there is the added element of lack of funding despite the fact this is seen and said to be a top priority for most donors.

Ted Chaiban

A stock exchange that can't carry on trading simply doesn't deserve to exist. The exchange should make it a top priority to bring business back to normal.

Kaoru Yosano

It's just a shame we didn't draw this federal money for children two years ago. If children had been a priority, we would have.

Michele Johnson

Consistent with our prior comments on Mervyn's and Marshall Field's, our top priority is to improve the performance at both these divisions, ... The policies in place strive to drive sales and traffic and are actively focused on these initiatives.

Cathy Wright

Chairmen prioritize legislation as it is reported out of their committees. Congressman Blunt will work with all of the committee chairmen to move their priority bills across the House floor.

Burson Taylor

The No. 1 priority of the city is the health and safety of its residents. And traffic is always the No. 1 thing on people's minds.

Councilman Hal Martin

So I think its important to get those soldiers up here and without getting the homes here were not going to have the soldiers up here so that certainly has to be a priority.

Kent Burto

The first priority will be to complete an environmental impact assessment prior to conducting initial seismic operations.

Norsk Hydro

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective relationship.

Mary Austin

Frankly, instruction is not the primary mission right now. ... Right now we just have to take care of our children, and testing is a long way from my priority right now.

Hank Bounds

Our number one priority is battling discrimination against Arab-Americans, and changing the stereotypes, letting people know we're not terrorists, we're not all evil. We're human beings just like you.

Hani Khoury

This is a high priority fire because of the BPA power lines.

Pat Mckelvey

I think it's a very good class for what they set out to do. They accomplished their goal. They definitely wanted North Carolina (players) to be the priority. They got the guys they wanted. And if you don't get the guys you want, you're in trouble.

Miller Safrit

Our first priority will be forming a plan for the south central neighborhood conservation and commercial revitalization plan. We are hoping to start with this plan by 2006.

Jeff Gray

When information is missing, we're going to put the needs of the disaster victim first. If that means that later we need to come back and ask them for some funds, we'll do that. But really our first priority is helping those folks out.

Hannah Vick

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Myriam Miedzian

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

Alexei Kudrin

If we decided a new front is the top priority, we could get things in motion for that within a year.

Ron Bradshaw

The fiscal situation will probably have to worsen and cause some economic pain before it becomes a priority.

Brian M. Riedl

He was our first priority; we just couldn't stop him. We just told Pat to play straight-up with him, and it didn't work. We were counting on the other guys having an off night, and they did.

Joe Katich

My number one priority is to try to get the summer school staffed with the best possible teachers.

Fred Butcher

Combating violent gangs and stopping the flow of illegal drugs is a priority of this Office.

Roslynn Mauskopf

Safety is our top priority.

Mike Rencheck