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Quotes About Urgency

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
~ Samuel Johnson
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
~ Plato
We'll have all night for slow and sweet, " she said softly. "But right now, I really want that hard and fast you mentioned earlier.
~ Samantha Chase, Wildest Dreams
Don't wait! The time will never be just right.
~ Napoleon Hill
Nu astepta - niciodata nu va fi momentul potrivit.
~ Napoleon Hill
that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
they needed additional safety features and scrambled to add them, at any cost.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
so users were severely constrained by time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the way we always speak with modest words, we never use clear and urgent words, our words are gray, harmless, floating, and useless
~ Natalia Ginzburg
The more unstable the economy and the more rapid the rate of change—the more urgent the need for large numbers of self-esteeming individuals.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.
~ Neal Shusterman
We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.
~ Neal Shusterman
Still, if you've got to bring yourself within inches of your life just to cry for help, something's wrong somewhere. Either you weren't yelling loud enough to begin with, or the people around you are deaf, dumb, and blind. Which makes me think it isn't just a cry for help - it's more a cry to be taken seriously. A cry that says I'm hurting so badly, the world must, for once, come to a grinding halt for me. The question is, what do you do next?
~ Neal Shusterman
But like so many things, once we had possession of infinite knowledge, it suddenly seemed less important. Less urgent. Yes, we know everything, but I often wonder if anyone bothers to look at all that knowledge
~ Neal Shusterman
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.
~ Charles Bukowski
A writer is not a writer because he has written some books. A writer is not a writer because he teaches literature. A writer is only a writer if he can write now, tonight, this minute.
~ Charles Bukowski
once again I hear of somebody who is going to settle down and do their work, painting or writing or whatever, as soon as they get a better light installed, orassoonastheymovetoanew city, or as soon as they come back from the trip they have been planning, or as soon as . . . it's simple: they just don't want to do it, or they can't do it, otherwise they'd feel a burning itch from hell they could not ignore and "soon" would turn quickly into "now.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made.
~ Charles Bukowski
Let's let the bombs go I'm tired of waiting
~ Charles Bukowski
There's time enough, but none to spare.
~ Charles Chesnutt
Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.
~ Charles McCarry
That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)
~ Charles Stross