Quotes About Urgency

The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.

was squeezed between two large Special Ops officers in the back of a black SUV. It was seven a.m.

I quickly crossed the room

antivuelco. Como suponía, Banks no tardó

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Like everything else I'd seen at Xymos, it was jerry-built, half-baked, concocted in a hurry to solve present problems and never a thought to the future.

La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educación pública.

And as the world becomes more and more complex, and the commodities more varied, the feelings we want become more urgent, less rational, more unconscious.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not. Figure out the equivalent of an escape fire.

He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I would say to Amos I have to do this or I have to do that," recalled his old friend Yeshu Kolodny. "And he would say, 'No. You don't.' And I thought: lucky man!

No one cares about data when everything is going well," said Josh Wills, the former chief data engineer at Slack, who agreed to help. "People only care about data when the shit hits the fan. 'Oh my God, what's going on??? We need data!

People only care about data when the shit hits the fan. 'Oh my God, what's going on??? We need data!

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site down' notice, but it doesn't matter.

"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"