Quotes About Urgency

If they didn't sail soon, the invasion would have to be postponed, perhaps until the following year.

Villeneuve didn't hesitate. Gravina was right. The whole fleet must form line of battle at once,

The Captain drew a long breath, conscious deep within him of an enormous satisfaction. 'Write this down, and then send it to them. "To Flag Officer in Charge, Londonderry, v Marlborough. HMS Marlborough will enter harbour at 1300 today. Ship is severely damaged above and below waterline. Request pilot, tugs, dockyard assistance, and burial arrangements for one officer and seventy-four ratings." Got that?

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Our house is on fire.

Either we prevent 1.5 degrees [Celsius] of warming or we don't.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

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

The future is determined by what we do now and the window of opportunity is closing fast.

Time is everything. Speed is of the essence.

We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That's the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts. But it isn't dead yet and neither are we. Are we going to drop the earth off at the vet, say goodbye at the door, and leave her to die in the hands of strangers? We can decide, even now, not to turn our backs on her in her illness. We can still decide not to let her die alone.

We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That's the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts.

Hurry. You so slow!

My countrymen,…think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.20

Urgency is a tiebreaker only between two tasks of equal validity.

Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they'd better be dying.

Yes," Elizaveta said venomously. "We are all beautiful here. Can we get going? Or do I need to get the makeup mirror out of my purse so you two can admire yourselves a little longer?

must tell them sometime," Alethia said. "I would rather get it over with now. And they are conveniently on our doorstep.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.