Quotes About Urgency

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

If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.' 'But she can't see a doctor now.' 'Why not?' 'She isn't well.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Businesses make lots of mistakes, so part of the point of business is to analyze them, to correct them, to have some sense of urgency about it; to have a management environment where it's okay to acknowledge mistakes—that way you can fix them," Dimon added.

The longing for solitude is a deeply romantic passion. But then writing is a romantic thing to do, predicated on desire, urgency, and an ideal of human connection, hardly available in what we wistfully call real life.

Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Let me out, or she dies!

As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.

Get the hell out of here!

I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another with defibrillators.

If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, What am I? And if not now, when? — Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

Temptations are like dirty dishes.  There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up.  And there are some who must do them right away.

I may not have all the time I thought I had...

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

I believe life is too short to wait and see.

If you want something, don't wish for it. Life is too short to wait.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

He went on down the hill toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing- the rapid and urgent beating o the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look back.

He could not hear either; the galloping mare was almost upon him before he heard her, and even then he held his course, as if the very urgency of his wild grief and need must in a moment more find him wings

All the while aware of his addiction, awakened by the flood of stress chemicals, urgently advising him that something to take the edge off would be a very good idea indeed. It was, some newer part of him thought, amazed, like having a Nazi tank buried in your back yard. Grown over with grass and dandelions, but then you noticed its engine was still idling.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.