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Quotes About Urgency

Forget motivation; just get used to doing things straight away.
~ Derren Brown
Rebirth takes away the sense of urgency and the quest for perfection that are the hallmarks of Western thought. The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Pretty show, but you're wasting energy and time," Max said. "Mind if we get back to saving Horngate? You can go postal later.
~ Diana Pharaoh Francis
Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault before they came running to stop her like a horde of hysterical nannies.
~ Diana Pharaoh Francis
I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.
~ Diane Ackerman
But what puts him over the top, in my estimation, is the job he has done putting America back on top in the global game. He's brought back the passion and sense of pride in playing for the red, white, and blue, by getting NBA All-Stars to understand they are playing for the name on the front of the jersey, U.S.A. Since he's become coach, Team USA has played with the utmost sense of urgency, bringing back the gold medal to where it belongs.
~ Dick Vitale
Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbour or not. We must get into action and obey – we must behave like a neighbour to him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To-day if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 4:7). That is evangelical preaching. Is this ruthless speed? Nothing could be more ruthless than to make men think there is still plenty of time to mend their ways. To tell men that the cause is urgent, and that the kingdom of God is at hand is the most charitable and merciful act we can perform, the most joyous news we can bring.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do not waste a single moment, like a warrior who, pierced to the heart by an arrow, knows he has only few minutes to live. It is now, while we are in good health and in possession of all our physical and mental faculties, that we should practice dharma.
~ Dilgo Khyentse
Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!
~ Dolores Cannon
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
~ Don DeLillo
Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.
~ Don Piper
obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?
~ Don Richardson
It is high time for us to arise from sleep. —Romans 13:11
~ Don Winslow
If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected
~ Donald Altman
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?
~ Bruce Lee
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
~ Henri Nouwen
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
~ Learned Hand
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.
~ Lecrae
Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.
~ Elvis Presley
If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.
~ Anthony Joshua
As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
~ Nancy Reagan
Enjoy yourself -it's later than you think.
~ Guy Lombardo