Quotes About Urgency

I'm sometimes driven to the conclusion that boring people need treatment more urgently than mad people.

and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,

A vida é uma ponte entre dois nadas, e tenho pressa.

quero que daqui pra frente a vida seja hoje. A vida não é adiável.

All things being equal, workflows that minimize this never-ending stream of urgent communication are superior to those that instead amplify it. When you're at home at night, or relaxing over the weekend, or on vacation, you shouldn't feel like each moment away from work is a moment in which you're accumulating deeper communication debt.

even though we're not capable of spending a full day in a state of blissful depth, this reality shouldn't reduce the urgency of reducing shallow work, as the typical knowledge workday is more easily fragmented than many suspect.

Exz. selbst sehr besorgt, alle Maßnahmen jetzt allerunzielsetzlichst, da Umf. und Organis.-Grad preuß. Mobilisation formidabel. Allg. Eindruck großer Bredouille.

Da ist ein Herr für Sie, Herr Baron — ein Herr Asenkerschbaumer? Sehr dringlich, sagt er?« Gerhard behandelte alle Indikative als Fragen, ein fränkischer Hamlet.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.

Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't spell later without the word late?

When I flip you off, run. I've just told you how many seconds you have left to live.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important?

the systems most prone to failure are also our most important and are at the epicenter of our most urgent changes. When

Rest assured that we understand the urgency of the situation and that you'll be apprised of how it's going as soon as I find out myself.

When deciding whether a message should be ERROR or WARN, imagine being woken up at 4 a.m. Low printer toner is not an ERROR.

The plot is simple: First, you take an urgent date-driven project, where the shipment date cannot be delayed because of external commitments made to Wall Street or customers. Then you add a bunch of developers who use up all the time in the schedule, leaving no time for testing or operations deployment. And because no one is willing to slip the deployment date, everyone after Development has to take outrageous and unacceptable shortcuts to hit the date.

Maxine remembers what it felt like to be the patient advocate for her dad, doing whatever it took to get him through the healthcare system. Now, she recommits herself to doing whatever it takes to get her teams through the company bureaucracies—the Data Hub team's sense of mission and urgency deserve no less. Relentless optimism, she reminds herself.

Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don't invite them to many meetings. The best way to make sure something doesn't get done is to have them in the room.

We should have done this a long time ago. We bump up the priorities of things all the time, but we never really know what just got bumped down. That is, until someone screams at us, demanding to know why we haven't delivered something.

Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don't invite them to many meetings.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

Now she just had to explain everything—well, most things—to the men, and then be off.

Tell the brat whatever you think will work. Just keep her within bounds, and then with luck we can all avoid unnecessary harshness. Also, hurry up and get over that pneumonia. We don't have time for sickbed drama. The letters from the Cardinal and from Ao Guang about the missing worlds are disturbing—we're still understaffed, and there's too much to do.