Next Quote by Shelby Steele Download Open image “My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.” — Shelby Steele ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Next Urgent
Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The urgent is other-oriented; its caused by someone else. Important things are self-directed and have the greatest value for you. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
