Quotes About Urgency

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

I like leaving things to the last possible minute, then letting blind panic be my stimulus.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

Help me!" he screamed

Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.