Quotes About Urgency

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

If I had only 60 seconds, I would pack some clothes, my phone, charger, toothbrush, head scarf, and shoes.

In my line of work, someone may say, 'Guess what? You've got to be on a plane in two hours.' So I keep a toothbrush and toothpaste on me.

Whenever you have a job to do ask yourself two questions. If not now, when? If not by me, by whom?

El reto es ejecutar las metas más importantes sin dejar aquello que es urgente.

One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor.

My story hurries me on.

Soon is not as good as now.

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

Just move the train, for fuck's sake, she's not getting any deader.

I need you ready in ten seconds'' ''As my boyfriend told me last night

Make haste" Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!

Why are you all reading? I don't understand this reading business when there is so much fucking to be done.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.