#prior

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #least #narrative #point #priority

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#clear #decided #grounded #having #i

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#daughter #fashion #had #i #people

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks. ↗

— Joe Murray

#cancer #child #closed #corrected #days

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#between #communicate #communicating #creatures #cultures

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alcohol #cigarettes #control #education #family

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#benefit #better #communities #different #empowered

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#armed #bloodshed #contradiction #danger #dialogue

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#border #border security #borders #complex #congress