Quotes About Urgency

Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

I'm downstairs. Hurry up, come on. Someone sent a bomb.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

What would you do if you knew you would not live until 40?

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.

Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you're gonna do this, you have to do it now.

The point we're emphasizing here is that certain circumstances demand attention

Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you're gonna do this, you have to do it now. In

We kiss with a strange urgency, as though we do not have a lifetime of kissing ahead. Is it because, being older, we know how grudgingly the world hands out its gifts, how eager it is to snatch them back?

I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case." "Oh god, is it wartime already?" "Look on the bright side: it'll be dinner when we get back.

I think when you're dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can't let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

I do what I can the moment I can.

calls "undue salience" to the sale, just because it's about to end.

tactics that businesses use to meet their deadlines or motivate their workers are a way of reapportioning that urgency: by moving up deadlines, by breaking them up into shorter chunks, by focusing the mission, by making teams interdependent. The trick is to feel that deadline effect constantly, even when the deadline itself has disappeared.

Only tragedies arrived with such urgency in the small hours before dawn.

A people on fire has no time to fan other people's flames.

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I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

of plans and hasty departure.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puede haber una crisis en la siguiente semana. Mi agenda ya está llena" (Henry Kissinger)