Quotes About Urgency

Telephones ringing at night are important.

Ha ha ha! One shot? You say that like there's sometimes more than one shot. Do you ever go into a fight thinking "there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later"? We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot. Making it count is all that matters.

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

Do you have to go," I asked, "or do you have to go?

Miss Daisy, if I can go to the bathroom even though I don't really have

A limited offer has unlimited appeal.

For God's sake, Maeve!

I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now. Less time to bounce back. And so I heed the urgent whisper and move with greater and greater deliberation.

Emotional explosions are neural hijackings. At those moments, evidence suggests, a center in the limbic brain proclaims an emergency, recruiting the rest of the brain to its urgent agenda. The hijacking occurs in an instant, triggering this reaction crucial moments before the neocortex, the thinking brain, has had a chance to glimpse fully what is happening, let alone decide if it is a good idea.

What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.

HAVE A FEDEX DAY

a particular complex of personality traits, including excessive competition drive, aggressiveness, impatience, and a harrying sense of time urgency. Individuals displaying this pattern seem to be engaged in a chronic, ceaseless, and often fruitless struggle—with themselves, with others, with circumstances, with time, sometimes with life itself.

We simply don't take issues of when as seriously as we take questions of what.

The goal here is to recognize that slow-moving when problems have all the gravity of fast-moving what calamities—and deserve the same collective response.

We're all dying, Jamie. Some of us faster than others.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Let these two small phrases roll through your mind and heart. Life is short. God is big. Life is short. God is big. Life is short. God is big. Do you hear that voice? Oh, I pray you hear that voice. We begin to listen by worshipping God. When we breathe in worship, we know and feel that life is short and God is big. Our hearts are emboldened. We are ready to move into action. Complacency leads to inaction, but worship moves us into action. It puts holy urgency in our lives.

Now he had her full attention. Not only because she wanted to know what had happened, but because anyone who'd get up at two in the morning to smack a melon in the dark deserved attention. Perhaps even medical attention.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

They don't want to wait their turn. They don't want to work their way up the ladder. They want what they want now

Real life happens in real time, and decisions have to be made in an instant.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.