Quotes About Urgency

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

Good managers have a bias for action.

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

Sometimes you think you have all the time in the world. But the time is now. Sometimes you only have a brief opportunity.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

We must not lose time, neither for dealing in a suitable way with the question of the United Kingdom's exit, nor for providing a new impetus for the E.U.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it.

The longer i live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed into magnificent sense.

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one's efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. (Letters on Life)

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my

The world is in great need. There is so much that needs to be done.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Stuff your eyes with wonders [...]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.