“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”
Dallin H. Oaks (1932) Apostle of the LDs Church
Desire https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04/desire, Dallin H. Oaks, April 2011
“Action expresses priorities.”
Apparently a rephrasing of "Actions express priorities," from Peak Performers http://books.google.com/books?id=ztKNTGYyqokC&pg=PA78 (1987) by Charles A. Garfield. The phrase is adjacent to a Gandhi quote in at least one list of quotations alphabetized by last name. <br class="br">Misattributed
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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948Related quotes
“A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.”
Merlin Mann (1966) American blogger
43 Folders http://www.43folders.com/2009/04/28/priorities <br class="br">Websites, The 43folders website
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Introduction to the story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” p. 166
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“All our thoughts and beliefs are somehow hollow until they find expression in action.”
The Transition Timeline: for a local, resilient future, (2009), p. 167 http://www.darkoptimism.org/books.html#TheTransitionTimeline
“Cease all, whose actions ancient bards expressed:
A brighter valour rises in the West.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta,
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.
Stanza 3, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe). Compare:
Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai!
Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade.
Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks!
Something greater than the Iliad is born.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xxxiv, 65–66
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
“Figure out the priorities so you wouldn’t fall into the trap of untimely priorities.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
Remark made on May 8, 2013, as quoted in About That New 'Moderate' Iranian Cabinet . . . http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324635904578644333931206380, The Wall Street Journal, (August 7, 2013)
David Gewirtz American journalist
Maybe it's time for Apple to spin off the Mac as a separate company http://zdnet.com/article/maybe-its-time-for-apple-to-spin-off-the-mac-as-its-own-separate-company in ZDNet (2 January 2018)
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: To do a job effectively, one must set priorities. Too many people let their "in" basket set the priorities. On any given day, unimportant but interesting trivia pass through an office; one must not permit these to monopolize his time. The human tendency is to while away time with unimportant matters that do not require mental effort or energy. Since they can be easily resolved, they give a false sense of accomplishment. The manager must exert self-discipline to ensure that his energy is focused where it is truly needed.