Quotes About Urgency

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.

I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans.

When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.

Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I am not disgruntled. I am frustrated at a lack of leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head start on developing lifesaving tools for Americans. I'm frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me.

I'm a sports fan of all sports - college basketball, MLB, NFL - and as a fan, the only sport I feel every week I feel urgency is college football.

Both my strong faith in the Lord - and a heartfelt concern for basic human rights - gives me a sense of urgency to address our longstanding challenges within our criminal justice system.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.

I've seen signs of life with regards to bipartisan support for criminal justice reform, but the support does not reflect the necessary urgency for real reform. This must be made a priority.

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.