Quotes About Urgency

Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

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

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

ADD people love bottom lines," I answered, laughing. "It's always, 'Get to the point'; 'What's the next show?'; 'Where's the beef?' Ã¢â'¬Â "Yeah, you're right," he said. "I'm not big on scenery. I want to get there. Is that bad?

These situations allow the ADD person not only to get into forward motion, but also to forget, to disregard that they need brakes in the first place. In an emergency, it's full speed ahead. What a relief.

The paper is due in five days" becomes "It's not due now," and the five days might as well be five months.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

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When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

But I felt that things were taking a turn for the worse, and I was frightened. Having to stay alert in order to avoid mistakes and confront dangers had exhausted me to the point where sometimes simply the urgency of doing something made me think that I really had done it.

On the other hand I wasn't really depressed. I felt, rather, as if I had left myself somewhere and was no longer able to find myself: I was worn out, that is, by movements that were too quick and barely coordinated, by the urgency of one who is searching everywhere and has no time to waste.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Francis ascended the stairs without slowing, calling for Marcus and Andrea before he'd reached the top. Then he was gone. If he'd clocked Jeff at all, it was only to verify that someone was behind the desk.

Hoy es siempre todavía, toda la vida es ahora. Y ahora, ahora es el momento de cumplir las promesas que nos hicimos. Porque ayer no lo hicimos, porque mañana es tarde. Ahora.

He's suffering from Politician's Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Humans aren't going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.