Urgency Quotes · Page 5

“Some people are so busy dealing with urgent matters that they fail to address the important ones.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

— Mike Wallace

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency.”

— Karen Hawkins

We need to love one another in a way that reflects this life's urgency and fragility.

— Wes Moore

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

— Phil Elverum

“Don't just answer to the name of a C.E.O. Answer also, to the pressing needs of your clients.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

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

— Romeo Dallaire

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

I'm never going to be satisfied. The sense of urgency that I have will never be quenched, because there's so much at…

— Miguel Cardona

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

— John Ortberg

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of…

— Martha Ronk

There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play,

— Justin Townes Earle

Maybe there is something to having your back up against the wall and having to perform. I feel like it kind of…

— Viktor Hovland

We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we…

— Menzies Campbell

I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it…

— Al Gore

We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With…

— Michael McCaul

“When is the urgency rate high enough? From what I have seen, the answer is when about 75% of a company’s management…

— Harvard Business School Press

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of…

— Anonymous

I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and…

— Christian Wiman

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being…

— Dervla Murphy

“Need is a funny thing. Sometimes it’s just a hum in the background. Sometimes it grows like ivy, patient but relentless, sliding…

— Sarah Fine

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent…

— Jonathan Swift

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

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

— DeRay Mckesson

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

— Brian Mulroney

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

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

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across…

— Kailash Satyarthi

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

— Judith Hanson Lasater

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain…

— Sufjan Stevens

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

— Alan Hirsch

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more…

— Paul A. Volcker

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an…

— Barry Ritholtz