#prior

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#could #necessary #otherwise #out #posteriori

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#aware #balance #been #before #child

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#changed #draw #experience #focus #focused

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#angeles #availability #coconut #committed #dinner

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

#doing #feature #goal #going #list

His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together. ↗

— Roger Housden

#food

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#both #children #conflict #men #men and women

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home. ↗

— Annie Leonard

#conservation #earth #ecology #environment #environmentalism