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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. -- Jim Rohn
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. -- Rem Koolhaas
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. -- James Hansen
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 be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency. -- George Clooney
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet. -- Karl Malone
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. -- Nas
Politics is the science of urgencies. -- Theodore Parker
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency -- Mark Spitz
What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency. -- George Jackson
I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend. -- Marc Bolan
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. -- Arthur Golden
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. -- Neil Young
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan. -- Chelsea Manning
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 as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster. -- Eckhart Tolle
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 luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter. -- Gil Amelio
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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, because they are aware of the urgency of transmitting this Good News to others...I assure you that the Spirit of Jesus today is inviting you young people to be bearers of the good news of Jesus to your contemporaries. -- Pope Benedict XVI
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. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways. -- Robert Muller
Urgency is insecurity. -- Michael Neill
Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs. -- Christopher Flavin
Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay. -- Richie Norton
Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency. -- Mark Spitz
PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency. -- Romeo Dallaire
We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency. -- Astrid Berges-Frisbey
We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted. -- Les Brown
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. -- Twyla Tharp
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
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. -- Dave Ramsey
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
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. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. -- John Grierson
I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others. -- Brian Skerry
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 understandable, and it has a role to play. -- Al Gore
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. -- Tony La Russa
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations. -- Margaret Chan
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. -- Francis Chan
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 the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. -- Margaret Chan
Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met. -- Mandy Moore
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. -- Eliot Spitzer
Ask with urgency and passion. -- Arthur Balfour
Develop a sense of urgency in your life. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency. -- Lou Gerstner
The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished. -- Cleve Jones
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points. -- James Hansen
I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul. -- Peter Sarsgaard
We must do more and with more urgency to empower women. -- Judith Rodin
Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency. -- Phil Knight
There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen. -- Andrew Crofts
I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. -- Jacob Lew
Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency. -- Jeff Bezos
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. -- Anthony Kennedy
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. -- Craig Venter
Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares! -- Eoin Colfer
I think the most important thing about screaming in our music is the urgency of it. -- Lacey Sturm
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. -- Etgar Keret
The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . It has developed weapons of mass death. -- George W. Bush
We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty. -- Judith Hanson Lasater
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. -- Audre Lorde
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming. -- Brian Mulroney
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. -- Barack Obama
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation. -- Idries Shah
A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end. -- Brian Tracy
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. -- Frank McCourt
I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. -- Mike Wallace
There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making. -- Rand Paul
Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life. -- Debasish Mridha
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency. -- Maud Newton
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. -- Cornel West
Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results. -- Ralph Marston
Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency. -- Alan Hirsch
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed. -- Babatunde Fashola
There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play, -- Justin Townes Earle
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. -- Tom Peters
I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing. -- Ram Dass
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Thurgood Marshall
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. -- Ralph Ellison
You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency! -- Eric Thomas
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. -- Avi Lewis
He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple. -- Quentin L. Cook
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present. -- Tom Hayden
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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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
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people. -- Elizabeth Warren
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. -- Francis Chan
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe. -- Kailash Satyarthi
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times. -- Betsy Sholl
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. -- Bob Proctor
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." -- Rumi
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice. -- Isabel Yosito
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect. -- Garth Greenwell
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
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda. -- Bob Graham
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 situation. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading. -- Martha Ronk
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen. -- G-Eazy
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. -- John W. Snow
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 long view. -- Michael Arad
The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. -- Ian Shapiro
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 Nature's stern urgency. -- Ellsworth Huntington
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. -- Virginia Woolf
Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy. -- Edith Stein
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. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to. -- Laura Mullen
If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned. -- Joy Harjo
Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now. -- Brian Tracy

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