Precedence Quotes
Precedence Quote of the day
I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.
If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
