Quotes About Urgency

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine

Wyatt Earp: Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.

Only concealment, not cover. Move, Reece!

The problem is, you think you have time.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Too often people are focused on the "urgent" at the expense of the important.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

But who listened to mothers when your cock was on fire?

Or get the gun!

En qué lugar, en dónde, a qué deshoras me dirás que te amo? Esto es urgente porque la eternidad se nos acaba.

Pressure is a great motivator

Between any trial and the blessing that comes from that trial, there is a pathway we must walk — that pathway is perseverance. Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency. And, while the joy of the blessing may seem a long way off, signposts or mile markers of joy line the way. These will help us persevere with resolve and consistency if we "consider" them.

When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?

The morning passed, lazy hours strolling after their preceding fellows with all the urgency of a cat sunning itself in summer;

We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.

I heard his hasty footsteps on the dock. I kept my head down. I heard the thump and felt it as he leaped down into the cockpit. I heard his grunt of consternation. He would have to find out, and find out quickly.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.

and as a general rule she did not call the doctor until Theo was half dead.

Don't waste a second but never hurry.

Just be sure you talk to her, Jack. Ask her everything, while there's still time.

You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

The crew waits for no man.