The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A… — Donald Knuth 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
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent… — David Popenoe Copy Share Image
We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world.… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for… — Daniel Pauly 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
Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the… — David Platt Copy Share Image
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
