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Quotes About Urgency

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
~ Yehuda Berg
It doesn't matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
~ Giles Coren
Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
~ Larry Wilcox
One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's an emergency, let's get out on the street now. There have been conflicts and disagreements.
~ Gail Bradbrook
In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
~ Amado Boudou
We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
~ Howard Schultz
The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.
~ Bill Dedman
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.
~ Greg Kinnear
Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.
~ Paul Greengrass
We'll get him!" said Jongor grimly. "Move, my little cabbage, move!
~ Robert Moore Williams
be in touch before the end of the day.
~ Robert Muchamore
But someone I know is dying-- And though one might say glibly, "everyone is," The different pace makes the difference absolute.
~ Robert Pinsky
Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second
~ Robert Ringer
I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.
~ Roberto Bolano
I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.
~ Roberto Bolano
No tengo mucho tiempo, estoy viviendo.
~ Roberto Bolano
And let nothing stop us or slow us in our quest! We leave immediatly!" "Can I pee first?" "...We leave after Sheemie pees.
~ Robin Furth
Ahora lo entiendo. Tenía que decírmelo para espolearme. Tengo que dejar de comportarme como si hubiera un mañana donde enmendar las cosas. Todo debe hacerse ahora, de inmediato, sin pensar en el futuro. Sin creer en el futuro. Sin temer el futuro.
~ Robin Hobb
I wanted to stop and think, but the anxiety wouldn't let me. Do it now, do something now, do anything now. The drive to be doing, doing anything, was a pressing need that could not be denied.
~ Robin Hobb
The only way out is to Run. But you have to do it now. Stay where you are, and you're dead!
~ Robin Parrish
She'd be frantic. Realize that she was about to die in
~ Lisa Jackson
His Blazer shot forward, sliding just a little. "I'll be
~ Lisa Jackson
The two-by-four by the door sometimes ya need it to get their attention - Grannie Gin
~ Lisa Jackson - Malice
hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind
~ Lois Lowry