Urgency Quotes
187 quotes by 173 authors
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and…
— Margaret Chan
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I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to…
— George Clooney
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Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of…
— Gil Amelio
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We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order…
— Michael McCaul
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
— Audre Lorde
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us.…
— Jeffrey Skoll
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make…
— Clint Eastwood
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Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel is not an optional extra,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.
— Thomas Berry
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The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart…
— Julia Cameron
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We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because…
— Al Gore
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from…
— Morris Kline
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In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government.…
— Robert Muller
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