Quotes About Urgency

Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.

Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.

TELEGRAM. SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 4 September.--Patient still better today. TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 5 September.--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite, sleeps naturally, good spirits, colour coming back. TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM 6 September.--Terrible change for the worse. Come at once. Do not lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till have seen you.

31 October.--Still hurrying along. The day has come

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too.

Man, it really gets me down. When everything's exhausted there's nothing left. The rate I was running, it wouldn't be long. Then what? What's next? What's the score? I can't handle the rest of my life suspended in boredom. Such a chore! Gonna burn out because I can't stand to fade away. Get it all in fast and get out. No turning back now. It's just the way it is, the way I need to be.

If a task or activity has large potential positive consequences, make it a top priority and get started on it immediately. If something can have large potential negative consequences if it is not done quickly and well, that becomes a top priority as well.

13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

Un elemento que has marcado con la A es algo que debes hacer. Es algo importante y tiene consecuencias graves, ya sea que se haga o no.

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.

The wicked gleam had returned to his eyes. "Why the sudden urgency? From what I understand, you're not scheduled to get married until the sixth anniversary of your twenty-first birthday.

but when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play." - Zedd

You could die this day, so you should strive to do your best while you still lived. - Richard Cypher Rahl

There is always time for another last minute

So much universe, and so little time.

Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he's woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it's that he's not alone.

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

It's All Officers, sir. They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well be you.