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Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

Action Late Too Late Apathy Complacency Urgency Vigorous

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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 up his mind.”

Mind Force Space Decision Soldier Historian Time And Space Statesmen Urgency Contingency

Author:Samuel Eliot Morison

“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 not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.”

Thinking Knows Needs Firsts Mean Action Waiting Fantasy Thirds Certainty Rooted Urgency Wishful Thinking Sense Of Urgency

Author:Jacob Needleman

“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 gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there.”

Persons Running Failing Terrible Seasons Stronger Assuming Passing Passings Despite Urgency Places To Go Stronger Person

Author:Joan Benoit

“If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.”

Ifs Force Pleasure Flow Cooperation Vitality Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Rick Jarow

“This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”

Life Noise Urgency Blooming Whirlwind

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“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 on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”

World Book Young Order Advice Style Ready Accounts Rounds University Gentleman Cousin Publish Voyages Urgency My Cousin Young Gentlemen

Book:Gulliver's Travels

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.”

Support Constant Improvement Pursuit Testing Urgency Unequivocal

Author:Tom Peters

“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 when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”

Ifs Knows World Love Should Trying Ends Might Next Honest Mines Shadow Phones Urgency Bedtime Precedent Text Me

Book:The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“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 radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous”

Should Problem Car Driven Enormous Radical Britain Carbon Motor Urgency Elimination Petrol Motor Cars

Author:Menzies Campbell

“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 and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.”

Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.”

“I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.”

People Important Listening Customers Traits Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.”

Littles Bigs Little Things Big Things Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Bob Proctor

“Ask with urgency and passion.”

Passion Asks Questioning Urgency

Author:Arthur Balfour

“We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.”

Wealth Security Comfort Comfortable Addiction Believer Radical Urgency Numb

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.”

Humans Persons Matter Problem Today Certain Causes Common Danger Serious Ethics Economics Profound Ecology Superficial Urgency Anthropology Common Good

Author:Pope Francis

“Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.”

Love Life Goal Meditation Love Life Far Away Urgency Life Goal

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.”

Felt Higher Eternal Protection Temples Refuge Urgency Higher Ground

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.”

World Long Beautiful Struggle Bitter New World Urgency Breaking Silence Dejected

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Being willing is not enough. We must do.”

“I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.”

Feels I Can School Achieve Waste Focused More Time Wasting Time Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Robert Pattinson

“In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.”

World Years Politics Gone Internet Tools Campaigns Mediums Advertising Boards Novelty Urgency Sophistication Campaigning Bulletin Board

Author:Howard Fineman

“Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.”

World Inspirational Needs Use Speak Loneliness Expression Who You Are Deeper Ache Relatable Urgency

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.”

“Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.”

Way Love Is Ready Listening Busy Midnight Urgency Seminary

Author:Sharon G. Larsen

“To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.”

World Wells Lost Dying Lessons Blessing Definitions More Time Grandfather My Grandfather Finishing Urgency

Author:Will Graham

“When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.”

Different Seems Culture Christ Scripture Statements Tone Intensity Urgency

Author:Francis Chan

“I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.”

Knows Want Believe Helping Use Moving I Believe Position Climate Climate Change Administration Faster Pace Urgency

Author:Kamala Harris

“Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.”

Humans Human Beings Forever Conversation Oneself Invitations Here And Now Urgency

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“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 answered not in material but in ethical terms.”

Term Materials Morality Ethics Our Time Ethical Urgency Predicaments

Author: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.”

Social Responsibility Greater Emotional Intellectual Response Journalist Social Responsibility Urgency Hiroshima

Author: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."”

Awareness Judging Kings Needed Wine Urgency

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“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. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.”

Years Real Government House Interest White Company Support Grateful Financial White House Ceo Chairman Urgency Bankruptcy Sense Of Urgency

Author: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 against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.”

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

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