Quotes About Urgency

slova p?ipisovaná Rogeru Bannisterovi... :"Každý den ráno se v Africe probudí gazela a ví, že musí b?žet rychleji než nejrychlejší lev, jinak zahyne. Každé ráno se v Africe probudí lev a ví, že musí b?hat rychleji než nejpomalejší gazela, jinak bude mít hlad. Je jedno, jestli jste lev nebo gazela - jakmile vyjde slunce, m?li byste utíkat.

error. It was Saturday evening, February 25, 2006, and I had twenty-four hours

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

The more important you are, the later you arrive.

Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Hoje me exige hoje mesmo.

She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.

Nunca a vida foi tão atual como hoje: por um triz é o futuro

É preciso que se saiba. É preciso que se saiba. Que a vida é curta. Que a vida é curta.

Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.

The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.

If you ask, "I'm not saying I'll buy this refrigerator, but if I do, when do you think you could deliver it?" he'll say, "When would you like it delivered?" When you reply, "How about early this afternoon?" he'll say, "Why so soon?" At that point one of you will comment, "Because we have about seventy dollars' worth of food spoiling rapidly.

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.

We humans make all that present which is never there, and which is always hurrying past us like the tumble of a stream, an all-important thing.

I urge you both, undertake no course without deep thought: but learn to think very fast.

it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Petrarch writes, "between one dip of the pen and the next, the time passes: and I hurry, I drive myself, and I speed toward death. We are always dying—I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or block their ears; they are all dying.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

Ahh... I've never seen that before. - What? - Someone wearing glasses up here. - Really? Then that should tell how urgent the situation is. Boris Ivanowich to Kate Mishima, on board of ISS

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Run! I want to shout. But, of course, that's the one thing I don't need to tell her to do.