Quotes About Urgency

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.

I like passion, I like to be among the desperate.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency...

Le vieillard: Maintenant... vous voyez aussi les morts. Pierre: Comment les distingue-t-on des vivants? Le vieillard: C'est bien simple: les vivants, eux, sonts toujours pressés.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

I'm a firm believer in that you've got to strike the iron when it's hot.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

Everyone likes to strike while the iron is hot. That's a philosophy I've always liked.

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

I thought about the kind of man who would stop off somewhere for a gun but not put on a pair of pants before committing grand larceny.

I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!