Quotes About Urgency

The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work.

Things are always very last minute with fashion, and you always have to be ready and have to be prepared at all times.

I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.

I think there's a presumption of a climate emergency which I don't think there is. I think there's a climate problem, I don't think there's an emergency.

What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.

I love a daily deadline.

Television is all about deadlines.

Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.

You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

People want government to deliver - here and now.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Your goal is to take years off people's lives, but not like this.

Unable to fight it any longer, she jumped up and made for the door, not even bothering with the beside lamp. Smart. Miranda. Real smart.

Tank crews showed little sense of urgency—"Everybody appeared to treat the disabled tanks with the same kind of warm-hearted affection an old-time cavalryman might lavish on his horse," the Army's official history acknowledged. Not until 2:30 A.M. on Sunday, November 5, just before moonrise, were the stalled Shermans finally shoved over the brink into the gorge.

five seconds. At 9:30 a headquarters clerk scribbled in the

SHUT UP!...PADDLE!

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Jake," Mum snapped, "when people are firing at us, you don't have to tell me that they're firing at us.