Urgency Quotes
187 quotes by 167 authors
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I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the…
— Michael Arad
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Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been…
— Ian Bogost
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Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels.…
— Christopher Flavin
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It…
— Dalai Lama
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The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely…
— Wayne Muller
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Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of…
— Michael Foley
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Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass…
— Spike Lee
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A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.
— Brian Tracy
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is…
— Jacob Needleman
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Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite a limp that…
— Joan Benoit
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If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing…
— Rick Jarow
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed…
— Jonathan Swift
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
— Tom Peters
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So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because…
— Marina Keegan
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We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really…
— Menzies Campbell
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A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments…
— Italo Calvino
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