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Quotes About Agenda

I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
~ Mamie Gummer
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
~ Douglas Hurd
A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.
~ Ron Fournier
The Minto-Morley package, for which the INC could take some credit, was initially disliked by many Hindu Punjabis.They saw the INC as having unwisely pressurized the Raj, equally foolishly sought a joint Hindu-Muslim agenda, and then failed to prevent a separate Muslim electorate.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Whether the work of the prime minister or one of her now forgotten minions, 'Garibi Hatao' was an inspired coinage. It allowed Congress (R) to take the moral high ground, representing itself as the party of progress, against an alliance of reaction. Personalizing the election was to backfire badly against the opposition, whose agenda was portrayed as negative in contrast to the forward-looking programme of the ruling party.
~ Ramachandra Guha
This world has no idea what you're really worth. Around here you are, at best, useful. You fit into a market niche or a voting bloc or some other impersonal category, to be manipulated for someone's selfish agenda.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.
~ Lecrae
I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.
~ Mikie Sherrill
Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.
~ David Dastmalchian
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
~ Daniel Yergin
We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
~ Karen Mills
Far as the government's reform agenda is concerned, a series of measures have been enacted which should increase the supply potential of the economy.
~ Arun Jaitley
The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.
~ Jerome Powell
When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership - not once, but twice - and defied the mainstream media's expectations to gain Labour seats in the 2017 election, it was no surprise to those of us who have always backed Corbyn and his agenda for change.
~ Clive Lewis
The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: 'Who wrote it, and when?' 'How did they know what to write?' 'Did they, in their time, really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?' 'Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?
~ Richard Dawkins
In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. QUELLCRIST
~ Richard K. Morgan
In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay.
~ Richard K. Morgan
In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda-makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. Quellcrist Falconer Things I Should Have Learnt By Now Vol II
~ Richard K. Morgan
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
~ Ron Fournier
It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.
~ John Taft
There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
~ Steve Kroft
Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
~ Adyashanti
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
~ Michael Pollan
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
~ Leland Ryken