P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.”
“Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk”
“Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.”
“Prior to the 1800s, this passage (1 Thess. 4:13-18) was understood by biblical scholars to be referencing the general resurrection and the final coming of the Lord at the end of time. Nobody believed this was referring to some sort of removal of the church from the earth, just prior to a seven-year tribulation period.”
“Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.”
“Prior to the advent of military staffs, armies and navies made military decisions via councils of war, in which the commander would assemble his major subordinates, solicit and pitch courses of action, and seek a consensus on which one to pursue. Napoleon eschewed such meetings once he had enough rank to forego them, calling them "a cowardly proceeding" intended more to shift blame than to determine an effective plan.”
Source: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines
“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”
“Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Prior to the beginning of the Shōwa period (1926–1989), few people visited the rock garden at Ryōanji, and within Japan itself, aside from a few professionals, there were not very many people who said it was particularly beautiful. Moreover, praise from foreigners did not come to be dominant until after the Zen boom in Europe and the United States started in the 1950s. As a Japanese, it is somewhat gratifying to know that Japan has a garden that foreigners praise and travel all the way across the ocean to visit. But this, again, is just a magic mirror that reflects a beautiful image of me.”
Source: Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West
“Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.”
“Prior to the era of polarization, ingroup favoritism, that is, partisans' enthusiasm for their part or candidate, was the driving force behind political participation. More recently, however, it is hostility toward the out-party that makes people more inclined to participate.
In other words, Americans are now motivated to... take part in political action not by love for their party's candidate but by hatred of the other party's candidate. Negative partisanship means that American politics is driven less by hope and more by the Untruth of Us Versus Them.”
“Prior to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder had been referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder. The renaming of this diagnosis has caused quite a bit of confusion among professionals and those who live with DID. Because dissociation describes the process by which DID begins to develop, rather than the actual outcome of this process (the formation of various personalities), this new term may be a bit unclear.
We know that the diagnosis is DID and that DID is what people say we have. We’d just like to point out that words sometimes do not describe what we live with. For people like us, DID is just a step on the way to where we live—a place with many of us inside! We just want people who have little ones and bigger ones living inside to know that the title Dissociative Identity Disorder sounds like something other than how we see ourselves—we think it is about us having different personalities.
Regardless of the term, it is clear that, in general, the different personalities develop as a reaction to severe trauma. When the person dissociates, they leave their body to get away from the pain or trauma.
When this defense is not strong enough to protect the person, different personalities emerge to handle the experience. These personalities allow the child to survive: when the child is being harmed or experiencing traumatic episodes, the other personalities take the pain and/ or watch the bad things. This allows these children to return to their body after the bad things have happened without any awareness of what has occurred. They do this to create different ways to make sense of the harm inflicted upon them; it is their survival mechanism.”
Source: Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Prior to the Hurricane Ian disaster, the biggest piece of Florida government propaganda I was aware of was the DeSoto Solar Farm.”
“Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table”
“Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”
“Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.”
“Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.”
“Prior to the recent interest in ecology, nature was not thought of as the object of the activities of capitalism; rather it was thought of as the arena in which capitalism and social life and each individual life had its being. Aspects of nature were objects of scientific study, but nature-as-a-whole defied possession.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?”
“Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
“Prior to your interview, select the proper suit and the nicest shoes and come armed with information about the company too. Just like in a marriage, you don’t want to sign on the dotted line until you find out you’re compatible. Remember, in so many ways, careering is just like life.”
Source: Careering: The Pocket Guide to Exploring Your Future Career
“Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.”
“Priorities are determined by values.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.”
“Priorities are simple to establish; what is desire and what is necessity?”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.”
“Priorities change and so does people”
Source: Beintehaa: Daastan-E-Mohabbat
“Priorities lead to prosperity.”
Source: Spend Well, Live Rich (previously published as 7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life): How to Get What You Want with the Money You Have
“Priorities lie in your actions”
“Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.”
“Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.”
Source: Lady, You're Not a Man! : The Adventures of a Woman at Work
“Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.
YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day.
NO EXCUSES.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Prioritise that which produces a luminosity within your soul. It's a pathway on which super achievers and heroic icons and born.”
“Prioritise the important things inside, then the outward will follow through.”
“Prioritization enables businesses to manage innovation with a focus, not for stifling innovation.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity.”
Source: 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
“Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Prioritize and work for the unshakeable, indestructible, incorruptible, and the imperishable Heavenly kingdom. It will be worth your life and you will never regret it.”
“Prioritize Knowledge And Not Traditional Education, Cause Nobody Asks You Your Degree While You Writing Them Autographs.”
“Prioritize Thanksgiving in your heart. It is a crucial aspect of life.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Prioritize the items you feel strongest about or are the most time sensitive, and strike off the items you feel “meh” about. We’re not here to design a lukewarm life.”
Source: The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
“Prioritize who matters.... you don't want to end up wasting your life over trivial people.”
“Prioritize your relationship with God and everything else will fall into place.”
“Prioritize your values.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Prioritize your well-being and remember that you deserve relationships that honor your values and needs.”
Source: Fear OFF Life: Psychological tools to overcome 21st century fears
“Prioritizing is paramount rather than allowing the most intrusive issues that arise to have dominance.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“Prioritizing listening to their child or adolescent is extremely important. It can be very hard to listen to someone who is upset or troubled without offering advice or suggestions or otherwise telling him or her what to do.”
“Prioritizing military over education, we only build a world full of terrorists.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Prioritizing staff retention strategies is imperative for maintaining continuity and stability within the school community, fostering a positive environment conducive to learning and growth.”
“Prioritizing time is a way to prioritize what you love.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping