Quotes About Urgency

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.

Desperation is the author of crazy-ass exits.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn't do it anymore. There wasn't much time.

Even not knowing that yet, she felt an intuitive urgency. What she wanted-- and wanted now-- was to be loved by someone who excited her.

Give me your hand," she says, offering hers. "Hurry now.

Where are you in your cycle? Oh, WHO CARES? Let's get you two BUMPING right away. We don't want another trimester to go by with a FLAT TUMMY. And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but it would be just BREEDY if you could deliver the goods by next March.

A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!

Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!

Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Dona say no. If you are, do it now and leave me alone. I can't take this, Maggie. You're killing me by small degrees.

It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.

In time of crisis it is better to do any intelligent thing quickly than to hesitate, searching for the ideal.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Explaining how the two of them, up there in the Green Mountains, had managed to dial down life's urgencies and dial up its pleasures and richness, Gary put it beautifully and poetically: "We've discovered a way" he confided with a sense of gleeful wonderment, "to bend time." I imagined Tracy and me engaged in a similar conspiracy a dozen years or so from now.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.