Quotes About Urgency

#1. 'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.

Steve Erickson

#2. Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark.

Robert Greene

#3. The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Pope Francis

#4. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

David McCullough Jr.

#5. Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency.

Donald Miller

#6. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

#7. So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

Todd Gitlin

#8. I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

Mary Roach

#9. You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Frank McCourt

#10. All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Siegfried Sassoon

#11. And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

Karen Russell

#12. Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Michael Foley

#13. The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

Bob Graham

#14. What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

George Jackson

#15. There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Susan George

#16. In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Twyla Tharp

#17. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#18. There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

Rand Paul

#19. In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Dave Ramsey

#20. There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

Sufjan Stevens

#21. Finally, the cold was a major factor - as stated previously, initially no one wanted to leave the warmth of the interior of the ship to sit in a boat, out on the dark ocean, in the freezing cold. Without a sense of urgency, who could blame them? Ironically,

Henry Freeman

#22. I learned something about truth - that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

Deb Caletti

#23. I felt an urgency like love.

Karen Thompson Walker

#24. In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.

Mark Spitz

#25. When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Cornel West

#26. Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

Spike Lee

#27. Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians to get into a sense of urgency in our preparation for His second coming.

Doris Ijeoma Basil

#28. Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

Eoin Colfer

#29. Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.

Debasish Mridha

#30. One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

Lynn Coady

#31. If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

Betsy Sholl

#32. I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground
the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

Quentin L. Cook

#33. No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Anthony Kennedy

#34. Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Ralph Marston

#35. I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

#36. I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

Maud Newton

#37. Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.

Nana Awere Damoah

#38. The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.

Joshua Ferris

#39. The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

Thomas Berry

#40. Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Richard Lloyd

#41. More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

Helen Greaves

#42. You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

Eric Thomas

#43. Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

Natalie Goldberg

#44. the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#45. The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

Seth Godin

#46. Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Fritz Leiber

#47. To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?

Ivanka Trump

#48. When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died. If you only go through life doing stuff that's easy, shame on you.

Carol S. Dweck

#49. Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

John Grierson

#50. I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Tony La Russa

#51. Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe ... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

Yoshihiko Noda

#52. 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.

George Clooney

#53. We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Les Brown

#54. And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

Warren Rudman

#55. No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

Greg Carlson

#56. IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

Lou Gerstner

#57. What can I say to you today, what I have to say to you is that we need a new sense of urgency about the issue of social justice in this country.

Joe Stroud

#58. My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

#59. I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

George Carey

#60. Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

Audre Lorde

#61. It was Ivan's morning duty to open each box, identify the species, vigor, mood, and fang-count of the writhing things inside, and sort them by genuine urgency.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#62. I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.

Helen Garner

#63. Today, I release the urgency of outer events. I listen to the inner rhythm of God. I set my pace by divine guidance. The world and its busy agendas do not control my soul.

Julia Cameron

#64. Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

Christopher Flavin

#65. Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

Idries Shah

#66. I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

Cory Booker

#67. Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

Richie Norton

#68. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

Rachel Field

#69. There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide.

Nicholson Baker

#70. In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

James Taylor

#71. To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty - while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.

Jacob Needleman

#72. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#73. I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others.

Brian Skerry

#74. I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

Tom Peters

#75. The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Ralph Ellison

#76. Even when I was looking for a job, there was no urgency about it because I knew you'd be there if I failed. Maybe that's why I never figured out what I'm good at. I haven't failed enough.

Nina Lane

#77. Of urgency I was feeling. "Tonight, Zoeybird? I can't wait a few hours until morning?" "Tonight." As if to punctuate my request through the phone, Aphrodite and I heard the chilling sound of a raven's deep, creepy, croaking

P.C. Cast

#78. The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency ... It has developed weapons of mass death.

George W. Bush

#79. For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.

Krista Tippett

#80. We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Rem Koolhaas

#81. As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

Chelsea Manning

#82. No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

Jonathan Ames

#83. Ask with urgency and passion.

Arthur Balfour

#84. Your call has a
time frame,a price to pay,urgency of attention.
Your call has a purpose, a pursuit, vision, commission,
honors and even excellency. So what are u called to

Ikechukwu Joseph

#85. Jamie. God, I want you." His hands were already parting Jamie's thighs and stroking them impatiently. He wanted - needed - to put himself inside him, the urgency of that need threatening to swallow him up. "Okay,

Alessandra Hazard

#86. He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided a necessary sense of urgency.

Andrea Laurence

#87. Email, Facebook, Twitter - all those false prophets of contrived importance - they can wait. Any urgency they have is artificial. Besides, I've had my fill of cat videos this week.

Peter Cawdron

#88. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Harold Bloom

#89. Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Phil Knight

#90. Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hugo Ball

#91. No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Virginia Woolf

#92. Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Eugene H. Peterson

#93. Her loins still ached from the urgency of his lovemaking.

George R R Martin

#94. I pull his hair a little harder while pushing his head harder against me. His fingers curl inside me, stroking my spot as his tongue caresses my clit with increased urgency." - Sofia Herrera (Never Say Never, Unbearable Passion, #1)

Scarlett Avery

#95. Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

Craig Venter

#96. I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

Marc Bolan

#97. I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and understand the urgency of issues. And to that extent, I think it is important how issues are talked about.

Maya Harris

#98. suddenly i pin you to the wall and the tenderness is gone my kisses change as do my eyes and my voice and my urgency

P.D. Bates

#99. And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way - it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn.

David Gaider

#100. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden