Quotes About Urgency

Lockhart glares at him furiously. "Sitrep, then get out." "What was that—" Pete begins, his words already in motion before he processes Lockhart's reaction. "That was the last we'll hear from a very brave woman. Or a very stupid one. Damn.

She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

It's important to seize the moment. If there's something you want to say, don't put it off, because you might miss your chance.

A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.

The Hayemaker is a dangerous fellow who, when the bell rings, is on a seek and destroy mission, by any means necessary. No playing around. No comedy. It's just straight-up business.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

To say that merit may be the same is not to say that productivity is the same. Nor can we logically or morally ignore the discrepancy in the relative urgency of those who want their shoes repaired versus those in need of brain surgery. In other words, it is not a question of simply weighing the interest of one income recipient versus the interest of another income recipient, while ignoring the vastly larger number of other people whose well-being depends on what these individuals produce. If

No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed and jittery, as if the last few grains of sand were at that very moment sliding through the narrow waist of an hourglass. Any unforeseen occurrence-road construction, an inexperienced cashier, a missing set of keys-could plunge her into a mood of frantic despair that could poison an entire day.

For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program.

This is not a drill.

Say it, please, she urged. Please. And hurry. Hurry. I've got things to do.

Nothing will undo the accident; nothing will immediately repair the jar, so what is the urgency of the beating? To teach a lesson or to enjoy it?

Oh I get it...You're looking for the quickest way to the hospital, huh? ~Train Heartnet

Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.

Možno by som si mala samovraždu naplánova? tak, aby sa stretávka a môj pohreb konali v rovnakom ?ase. Pozrela som sa do kalendára. Nie, tak dlho ur?ite nevydržím ?aka?. Teraz máme koniec apríla, rada by som to mala ?o najskôr za sebou.

Tethered to our smart phones, we are too caught up and distracted to take the time necessary to sort through complexity or to locate submerged purpose . In our urgent rush to get "there," we are going everywhere but being nowhere. Far too busy managing with transactive speed, we rarely step back to lead with transformative significance.

Maybe that's why we did things so fast," said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. "We didn't have schedules to slow us down.

We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?