Quotes About Urgency

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

Los empresarios más exitosos no solo tienen valentía e imaginación, también tienen un sentido de urgencia. No están dispuestos a esperar. Tienen un deseo ardiente de hacer algo».

Hurry, hurry, hurry," she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.

Hadi çocuklar, bana yard?m edin de ÅŸu hediyeleri toparlayal?m. Hadi çabuk, çabuk, dedi; o s?rada hava kararm??t? ve pansiyoncu kad?n da birbirimize sadece bir tek günlüÄŸüne azg?n bir cömertlikle baÄŸl? olduÄŸumuzu, o gününse bitmesine ramak kald???n? biliyordu.

Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, 'Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.' Back

Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about." ? John Cleese

It is easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

I think this view misses the essential point of running away, which is to do it the moment the idea has occurred to you. Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, "Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.

Take time to be sure, but be sure not to take too much time

The time for forgiveness and overlooking and waiting is over because you just don't have those numbers of games left. We got to have people going out there now doing the job, not hoping they are doing it.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

Death will be too late to bring us aid.

It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears.

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"-Dr. Honma

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

No other road, no other way, No day but today!

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.