Quotes About Urgency

Global warming is real, and it is here. It is causing—yes, causing—death, destruction, and vast economic loss. And the causal effects are getting greater with time. We cannot merely adapt to it. The costs are incalculable. What we are facing is huge. Each day, the amount of extra energy accumulating via the heating of the earth is the equivalent of 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. Each day!

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.

Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.

On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country.

Direct threats require decisive action.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.

I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

Alarm-based marketing logic often goes something like this: There is a limited quantity (scarcity). Unless you act now (urgency), you'll lose your opportunity (consequence). When crafting a message for an audience who is stuck in apathy or indecision, deadlines and consequences overcome inertia to create action.

It was early, late, lockjaw hour.