Quotes About Urgency

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

La scoperta dell'energia atomica non ha creato un nuovo problema, ha solo reso più urgente la necessità di risolverne uno già esistente

Quick! Quick! Our liddle genius is crying.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo cosa mai stiamo aspettando. Silenzio. Che sia troppo tardi, madame.

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

Riditemelo, Bartleboom. Proprio con quel tono lì, vi prego. Riditemelo.

Without delay," echoed Charlie. "Those are very good words, I think. Without delay. Please will you pay my bill without delay. Please leave without delay. Please improve your attitude without delay…" Mma Makutsi shot Charlie a

Barbara said to herself: Oh, please, please, please! Please let nothing go wrong with this—this wildly improbable, impossible, but gorgeous thing. She was not sure to whom to address this invocation. To Venus, perhaps? If the goddess of love were listening, she would surely cherish such an invocation and understand the urgency, the yearning, that lay behind it.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Every second counts

All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation that until the pressure was removed she couldn't think about God. She hadn't the patience to pray. It was a shock to her. Surely God was for these times?

How soon "not now" becomes "never".

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

We're all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon

"Life is too short," she panicked, "I want more." He nodded slowly, "Wake up earlier."