Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time? — John Updike Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
“The world is full of problems far more urgent and relevant than Greek tragedy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right. — David S. Broder Copy Share Image
Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to… — George Sand Copy Share Image
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity. — Tom McClintock Copy Share Image
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then,… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I understand that you have an urgent task for me." "I do." "What is it?" "I want you to go to the… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population, pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our… — Wanda Urbanska Copy Share Image
I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
