Quotes About Urgency

Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.

Don't save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.

It's not enough to use information for "something"—it needs to be immediate and important.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" –Rabbi Hillel

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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

Our sight is dimmed by the tyranny of the urgent, by the siren call of success, by the seductive beauty of physical things, by our inability to admit our own problems, and by the casual relationships within the body of Christ that we mistakenly call fellowship.

Ma che faccia che hai, sembri uno che ha un urgente bisogno di essere sepolto.

In my youth I looked for answers with a terrible urgency. I craved certainty. Then I started telling myself that, in the end, we have to accept there's a vast amount we just don't know.

Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone.

I don't think we can afford to wait when it comes to cybersecurity. I think that every day we wait, if an attack occurs - and we're getting hit every day - but if a greater attack occurs, it's going to be on the head of Congress for not acting.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.

of urgency I was feeling. "Tonight, Zoeybird? I can't wait a few hours until morning?" "Tonight." As if to punctuate my request through the phone, Aphrodite and I heard the chilling sound of a raven's deep, creepy, croaking

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.