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Quotes About Urgency

America this is quite serious
~ Allen Ginsberg
Cuanto menos tiempo tienes, menos quieres arriesgar el que te queda
~ Joe Abercrombie
Every successful company must be on guard against the threat of complacency. You have to create a sense of urgency every day in every thing you do.
~ Joe Calloway
Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.
~ Joe Gores
Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.
~ Joe Hill
These days, I'm not sure it's ever a good idea to leave anything important for tomorrow.
~ Joe Hill
Emergency meeting! Everyone to the conference room now!
~ Joe McGettigan
When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures.
~ Joe Schreiber
Now?" I asked. "Like, now now?" "What other kind of now is there?" Loretta asked.
~ Joel N. Ross
Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.
~ Joey Comeau
Tyler seriously considered fabricating an outbreak of salmonella in the hors d'oeuvres and an impending locust plague, either of which would require everyone to leave now.
~ Joey W. Hill
All those wonderful muscles would be taut and slick as he pounded into her with single-minded urgency, his most primitive instincts making him into a fierce, beautiful rutting animal. Just imagining it made heat shimmer over her skin.
~ Joey W. Hill
that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.
~ Johan Galtung
I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.
~ Johan Huizinga
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
~ Fletcher Knebel
Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
~ Jon Foreman
Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!
~ Les Brown
There's life and death in every email.
~ Bill Gates
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
~ Ray Bradbury
When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
~ Richard L. Evans
Life is fired at us point blank.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!
~ Madonna Ciccone
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
~ H. G. Wells