Quotes About Urgency

I hadn't looked at the maps yet and I'd barely looked at the survey package. In my defense, we'd been here twenty-two planetary days and I hadn't had to do anything but stand around watching humans make scans or take samples of dirt, rocks, water, and leaves. The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

This is Tremaine Valiarde." There was a faint gasp at the other end. "I can't speak long"—family code for someone is listening—"but I needed to let Uncle Galiard know that I'm all right." I need help and I need it now.

They're coming this way, quickly!' 'I didn't really want to know that.

Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today?

Lumawoo, come quickly! Beowulf's leg is worse.

Tengo que resucitar imperiosamente antes de morir.

Je suis en danger de mort? Peut-être, mais je suis en danger de vie si je ne la revois pas, et, à mon âge, je trouve ça encore plus grave.

They die, and so they have impatience.

He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear

Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.

We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

These people build as if they were immortal and eat as if they were to die instantly.

I'm walking this over to you, I'm talking to you, which means this is important.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

The immediate moment is all that exists for them; everything must serve it, no matter whether what they ruin in the process is something they will be in dire need of the next minute.