Quotes About Urgency

Play every game as if it is your last one.

Every game is a playoff game.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

I am gravely concerned about climate change.

I wish climate change wasn't real.

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

I'm not afraid to talk about climate change.

There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.

A lot of guys, when the ball is coming, sit there and look at the clock; then it makes you rush your shot.

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Since the phone conversation was none of my business, I stood and listened to it, and gathered that someone named Philip had better put in an appearance by five o'clock or else.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

I no longer want to postpone anything in life. That urgency, that purpose, has really changed my life.

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

The era of procrastination is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences,