Urgency Quotes

187 quotes by 167 authors

We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves… — Evaristo Nugkuag
I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the… — Rick Larsen
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be… — Hugo Ball
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. — Wilfred Burchett
Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed." — Unknown Author
I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year.… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest… — William O. Douglas
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity… — John O'Donohue
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone. — Deanna Petherbridge
When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues. — Marco Rubio
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a… — Eleanor Roosevelt
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more… — Kumi Naidoo
When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when… — Jake Ellenberger
You have to believe in who you are and what difference you can make. You have to care about the urgency and the difference it… — Nancy Pelosi
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite… — Al Gore
What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency. — George Jackson
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. — Rem Koolhaas
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. — John P. Kotter
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would… — Daniel Day-Lewis

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