33 Quotes About Urgency

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place! ..Your new life will be tinged with urgency, as though you're digging out the victims of an avalanche. If you're not spending every waking moment of your life living the truth, if you're not plotting every moment to boil the carcass of the old order, then you're wasting your day. Douglas Coupland

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. Mitch Albom

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! Unknown

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. Adam Gopnik

I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding. Charles Eisenstein

When everyone is hungry and waiting — when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe. Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself. Zadie Smith

When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings. Tony Curl

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey Maggie Stiefvater

Every time we look at the clock, we must learn to feel a sense of urgency. We must learn to realize that “now” is happening and will very soon be gone. We must look at the digits on the display and be overcome with an urge to do something before those digits change. Before “now” slips through our fingers. We must look at the ink on the calendar and see an immediate opportunity to do something wonderful, incredible, or beautiful. It’s that simple. We need to change our thinking from “when the number changes” to “before the number changes”. . Dan Pearce

Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous terms that this is not real Zen. To follow the Dharma involves a complete reorientation of one's life in such a way that one's activities are manifestations of, and are filled with, a deeper meaning. If it were not otherwise, and merely sitting in zazen were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened, as one Zen master said. Dōgen Zenji himself said that one must practice Zen with the attitude of a person trying to extinguish a fire in his hair. That is, Zen must be practiced with an attitude of single-minded urgency. Francis Harold Cook

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that– like he was running out of time. Katherine McIntyre

Your brand will be called on upon when it's needed. When it's not needed at the moment, keep it safely till it's call comes. Some brands shine occasionally! Israelmore Ayivor

You must create more margin so you have room for what’s important, not merely urgent. Michael Hyatt

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. Chris Matakas

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again Seyi Ayoola

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by. William James Moore

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay. Richie Norton

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness. Katelyn S. Bolds

In a crisis, time was always the enemy. Stephen L. Carter

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. — Arthur Schlesinger David Pietrusza

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. Randy Alcorn

Urgency and despair don't get along well. N.K. Jemisin

There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic. Shawn Michael Severud

We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an urgency about the need for more intensive application of physics and chemistry, and specially of structure analysis, that is still not sufficiently appreciated. William Astbury

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time. Malti Bhojwani

There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is – you must be yourself. Bryant McGill

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. Carl F.H. Henry

Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians, ' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come around. Holly Sprink