Quotes About Urgency

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Even more challenging and of perhaps greater urgency is the need to understand how to scale organizational structures of increasingly large and complex social organizations such as companies, corporations, cities, and governments, where the underlying principles are typically not well understood because these are continuously evolving complex adaptive systems.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!

Breath caught in my chest. I realized with absolute clarity that one day I was going to die. One day I would no longer be here. All the things I wanted, all my thoughts, all my worries—all of it would be gone with me, lost forever. There were so many things I wanted to do. So much I still wanted to see. I had to hold on to it. I had to hold on to every short second of life. Every breath was a gift, gone forever to the cold stars the moment

Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.

They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other-the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift, the very first one, the gift of the soul before the body surrenders

Dio mio, aiutami!», mormorò. Mai, dalla sua infanzia, aveva pregato. Fulminea lo attraversò l'idea di fermarsi nell'androne di una chiesa che aveva scorto sulla strada. Sì, tornare indietro, inginocchiarsi sui gradini di quella chiesa, implorare Dio!... Ma no, era impossibile, bisognava fare in fretta, fare in fretta!

Irène suddenly taken today destination Pithiviers13 (Loiret)—hope you can intercede urgently—trying to telephone no success. Michel Epstein.

Talk to him about more ordinary things. It'll take a bit of time.' 'There isn't much time left, my dear. And no ordinary things. Only last things.

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first love, the stromngest in her life, a secret. She mentioned it only rarely because she could not offer Zacharie a passion of the same intensity; the relationship they shared was genntle and free of urgency.

I would say that my forte is cutting the line. My entire life's work is me having zero patience and not waiting in a line.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

When necessity speaks, it demands.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Something must happen!

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.