Urgency Quotes · Page 4

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

— John P. Kotter

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

— Michelle Zauner

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

— James Hansen

“There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Ralph Ellison

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

— Karen Marie Moning

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

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

— Rand Paul

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang…

— James Patterson

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

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

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in…

— Bob Proctor

“F.U.R FOCUS-URGENCY-RESPONSIBILITY--- As a team you can move mountains without any effort, simply because of our combined faith and commitment!”

— Katlego Semusa

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner.…

— Edith Stein

“Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do.…

— Keri Arthur

In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely…

— Vivek Shraya

The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I…

— Mary Schapiro

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible…

— William James

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical…

— Adam Gopnik

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end…

— Catherine Mayer

You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a…

— Josh Radnor

What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability…

— Shepard Fairey

Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we…

— Eliseo Medina

In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could…

— Stefan Zweig

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as…

— Joan Didion

We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in…

— Vijay Prashad

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only…

— Carl Jung

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

— Neil Young

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.”

— Dustin Lee

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

— Jeff Bezos

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

— Barack Obama

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

— Marc Bolan

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

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

— Christopher Flavin

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

— Romeo Dallaire

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

— George Jackson

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.

— Alessandro Michele