Quotes About Urgency

When Kessel asked Bezos what his deadline was on developing the company's first piece of hardware, an electronic reading device, Bezos told him, "You are basically already late.

I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!

This could be her last day of her life.

hurry and disguise your faces, then we need to get out of town.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.

But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

You have a plan?" she asked. "There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.

Run!" Tia yelled. Like I needed to be told.

But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." The

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Jesus says, "A tidal wave is approaching and you are lollygagging on the patio having a party." Or as Joachim Jeremias puts it, "You are feasting and dancing—on the volcano which may erupt at any moment."3

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.

Wir haben es eilig, eine telegrafische Verbindung zwischen Maine und Texas herzustellen: aber Maine und Texas haben sich vielleicht gar nichts Wichtiges mitzuteilen?

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

Up to a certain point it is necessary to produce shoes. But it is also necessary to produce coats, shirts, trousers, homes, plows, shovels, factories, bridges, milk and bread. It would be idiotic to go on piling up mountains of surplus shoes, simply because we could do it, while hundreds of more urgent needs went unfilled.

fast ones, if you're impatient." She was silent a little after which she brought out: "Oh I guess it'll be fast enough!

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off.

Te quiero…te adoro –dice–. Iré adonde digas: Estambul, Singapur, Honolulú. Pero ahora tengo que irme…se está haciendo tarde.

In the impetuousness of youth, when you're 21 years old, you want results yesterday.

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.