Quotes About Urgency

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.

If I was writing during that window, then I imagine that the story was likely late as well and absolutely needed to be finished, so once again I met with inspiration at the corner of Late and Hurry up.

Just once," I growled, "I'd like to save the goddamned day without a shot clock. You know?

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What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.

plan as though Jesus is not returning for a hundred years and live as though Jesus is returning today.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

Never forget to let people know you love them, because the one day it matter's most...there might not be time...

The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so youve got to perform.

You won't have time, do it now!

Don't wait until you feel like doing something, because when it too late you will regret.

Seize the moment. Don't expect someone else to do something you want done. If you don't do it yourself, perhaps no one will. By the same token, don't put things off to the future. If you don't do it now, you might never do it at all.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Do it today! Yesterday is gone and tomorrow it might be forbidden.

Do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.

And do come as soon as you possibly can! P.S. to Gauguin. If you are not ill, do please come at once. If you are too ill, a wire and a letter, please. P.S. to Theo. Perhaps you will think the P.S. to Gauguin too curt, but let him say whether or not he is ill, and anyhow he will recover better here. Have you received my canvases???

Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has managed to muddle along by himself for six months, am ceasing to believe in the urgent necessity of helping him.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.