A Quote by Ted Koppel

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Ted Koppel

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Ted Koppel
American - Journalist
Born: February 8, 1940

Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.

Lee Ranaldo

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Glasser

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

Maria Montessori

Action takes precedence over study.

Judah the Prince

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

Henry Rosovsky

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

Kobe Bryant

Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

Irwin Corey

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

Jeff Olson

As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

Bruce Herschensohn

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

Ephraim Mirvis

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

Niels Diffrient

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Edward de Bono

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Victor Hugo

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

Kate Morton

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

Douglas Rushkoff

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