If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Some people are so busy dealing with urgent matters that they fail to address the important ones.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Your brand will be called on upon when it's needed. When it's not needed at the moment, keep it safely till it's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane… — Richard Betts Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your… — Sharon G. Larsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you. — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes. — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how… — Karl Malone Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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