Quotes About Urgency

One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

and she starting barking impatiently a half hour before each feeding time.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.

He looked right into her and then he said, "In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay?

We do not even have time to find out if our momentum is taking us over the nearest cliff.

Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee." That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.

John trotted up, carrying his satchel. "Yes. Wexler's gone. We need your car." "What? Why?" John circled around to the passenger-side door and said, "Car chase.

John looked at him and yelled, "What are you waiting for? Shoot him in the mouth!" The word "mouth" could not be heard over the gunshots.

Salvation! Why, it's always a last-minute business, boy.

She gave a theatrical sigh. For heaven's sake, Julia, don't be difficult. Climb onto the floating buffalo and let's be off. We are meant to cross this river before nightfall.

I learned something about truth—that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.

Life will just not wait for us to live it:We are in it, now, and Now is the time to Live

At what point does "one day" become today?

Always focus on what is important—not what is urgent.

Execution is something, but timing is everything.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

con una amenaza: «Si las tropas no están embarcadas

Held a 'prisoner perforce inactive when a fierce activity consumes the world', Nehru found the present had acquired the 'immobility and unchangeableness' of the past. Still, sequestered from the world, he felt 'the domination of the present'— or to use a more current phrase, the urgency of now pressed in on him. Denied the freedom to act in this present, he turned to the past and made it his instrument for acting on the future.

In all such interpersonal relations, principles previously set forth in other sections of this book are applicable. The teacher must be careful to stress the urgency for reconciliation, the need for forgiveness and help, the importance of first removing the log from one's own eye, and the necessity for attacking problems rather than people.

companion. He scooted through, raced to the car. Rosemary stood at the door. "Call. No matter what." "I will,