Quotes About Urgency

Ahora que no te escribo cuando me voy. Ahora que estoy más vivo de lo que estoy. Ahora que nada es urgente, que todo es presente, que hay pan para hoy. Ahora que no te pido lo que me das. Ahora que no me mido con los demás. Ahora que, todos los cuentos, parecen el cuento de nunca empezar.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

The gospel is only good news if it reaches the lost in time.

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

But do thou remain, there is no use for punctilio, if we can [but save your life.]

SERV. I see you rather seeming to hasten than hastening.

The thing is, baby, you don't have long,' he said. 'We don't have long. Dancers are like dragonflies – in one day, dead in the water the next. So you just have to work, all the time, because if you don't love it, and if you don't want to do it so much that it's like breathing to you, then you might as well stop now.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

you right now." "That won't be necessary. I'm on your side. Look, I have to leave. As you all know, Lizzie does not like to be kept waiting. So, we're good?" To everyone's surprise, Harry spoke first. "We're good. I think I speak for all of us." The others nodded. The webcam came to life. "Good decision, guys. Gotta go; some high rollers just blew in. Have to get the red carpet ready to roll out. Time is money. See ya!

GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.