Quotes About Urgency

O que importa é a rapidez com que você faz o que sua alma manda.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

Hey, Nemesis, if you're going to kill me, then kill me. Otherwise, I've got stuff to do.

If we're going to go through with this," he said gruffly, "then hurry it up. It's not everyday I send someone into hell.

The world will not wait for us.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

Run while you have the light of life!

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

The things that disturb us at midnight are negligible at 9 a.m.

On Climate Change:) We know not only what we need to do, we have the capacity to do it. It is simply that we are not doing it. So that's one hope.

they put stuff down based on their immediate need, rather than based on a sequence of needs.

It's about time. We don't have all day, you know.

Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.

If you feel like you have all the time in the world to do something, you will take all the time in the world. If you have twenty minutes, the task will take you twenty minutes. Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.

It's just like Kiernan Kane to send an urgent message hidden in an indecipherable mess of prophetic rhyme. By the time we've figured out what the thing means, we'll be in the middle of danger only to realize that every assumption we made was completely wrong.

Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.

Sawyer? I think I can feel my shoulder." "Can you feel your hands?" "No." "What about your legs?" "No." "Can you move?" "Let me check . . . Also no." "Then what good could it possibly do us that you now have feeling in your shoulder?" "I don't know, Sawyer. But I think I hear someone coming, and you're the one in charge of coming up with plans.

Is today a good day to die? Is today the day? And if not today–when?

We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

No time like the present, and all that. You of all people should know we're only guaranteed right now.