Quotes About Urgency

A decision loses its charm unless you can act on it immediately.

These days instead of telling the police that robbers are robbing your house....just tell them that criminals are dragging out bags of money. My friend the police will be there in less than 2 minutes.

You find a village without pit latrines, But when a person dies, folks dig the grave in 3 minutes. Let's talk!

Death is our best motivator in life. The idea of dying or not seeing the sun tomorrow will keep you up on your toes.

Paul's explanation for why the gospel, the unveiling of God's justice and salvation, is urgently required is that the tree is rotten to the core, and might come crashing down at any minute.

to go urgently around, with minimum hindrances or distractions, warning people that the world is heading rapidly in the wrong direction, and doing things which show clearly that evil has been defeated through Jesus and can be defeated again today.

Less talk, more action, pussycat

Robert walked faster than usual, and I had trouble keeping up with him, but I did not hold him back. I was pleased at his urgency. I understood it, for when inspired one does not amble, one runs toward the source.

Life is short. If you have something to say, either spit it out or forget about it.

I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen injured people. We have to get of here quickly and we don't have any food. We are weak. When are you going to come and fetch us? Please. We can't even walk. Where are we?

The closer you are to death, the more you want to live.

Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.

But what if you are already sixty, seventy years old, eighty, ninety? Let the thunder roll. You've got something to say. You are alive and you don't know for how long. (None of us really knows for how long.) No matter your age there is a sense of urgency, to make life immediate and relevant.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

We became a tribe recalling the founding two. Ducked in thru a door, we ate food from Reunion, island in an ocean some- where, we forgot which, ducked in, not a trace of them there. . . We clutched bodies, rubbed each other's limbs, less in love with skin than the memory of skin, skin's image, all the more extolling skin. . . Sexed insinuance, nixed insistence in retreat. . . Would-be what-if, what if. . . We wanted it back, big promise, portent, apocalypse, urgency, plummet, plunge

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Implication Questions take a customer problem and explore its effects or consequences. As we'll see, by asking Implication Questions successful people help the customer understand a problem's seriousness or urgency.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

For the next hour and a half we did the "Baxter Hurry Scurry," and at two minutes to ten we hustled up the stairs of

Everything in this world invites you to wander away from the I AM. Urged to believe in that pill, this diet, a man, you move away from your true identity and become lost as your consciousness wanders. But it doesn't really matter, for you cannot be lost, as the son of man will come.

Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they're trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it's this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it's often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.