Quotes About Urgency

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

The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there's a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.

Early thirties for women is a very intense time. If you want kids, and you're not in a relationship, there's an urgency there, so they're forced to mature quicker. It's easy for a man in his thirties to be immature - you can have kids into your fifties, whereas women just can't.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

When we try to make everything a priority, the fact is nothing is truly a priority.

Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

needed to be done in the next day and a half.

really have to go if we're going to keep that reservation." Tracy handed her overnight bag

If she didn't have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn't focus worth a damn.

We must learn this lesson again today. There can be no dillydallying around with the commands of Christ. We are engaged in warfare, the issues of which are life and death, and every day that we are indifferent to our responsibilities is a day lost to the cause of Christ.

People in a hurry get noticed.