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Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. -- Jane McGonigal
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete -- Alanis Morissette
Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think? -- Donita K. Paul
Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam. -- Ryan Holmes
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. -- James Allen
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent. -- Joyce Meyer
I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms. -- Terry Richardson
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? -- Wendell Berry
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. -- Milton Friedman
Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle. -- Markus Persson
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. -- Jack Herer
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. -- William Bernbach
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. -- Jeffrey Sachs
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. -- George Carlin
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care. -- Margaret Chan
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. -- Louis Kahn
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. -- Bill McKibben
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. -- Dennis Gabor
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world. -- Steven Van Zandt
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. -- Mohamed El-Erian
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. -- Gerald R. Ford
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects. -- Larry Charles
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. -- Pope Francis
People have different interpretations of "urgent". -- Marco Arment
Never let something important become urgent -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Always look for forced urgent selling. -- Seth Klarman
the urgent crowds out the essential. -- Nan Fairbrother
Fear can give you urgent wings. -- Margaret Mahy
The urgent can drown out the important. -- David Meerman Scott
Truth has not such an urgent air. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Being a mother makes everything more urgent. -- Marianne Williamson
Anything I do today, I regard as urgent. -- Malcolm X
Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow. -- Ann Voskamp
Do what is important, not what is urgent. -- Stephen Covey
Don't let the urgent take precedent over the important. -- Michael Hyatt
Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems -- Douglas Engelbart
Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent. -- Debasish Mridha
Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important -- Kay Yow
I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response. -- Tom Frieden
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important. -- Edward de Bono
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent -- Jimmy Carter
An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change. -- Darrell Calkins
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action -- David Karoly
I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together. -- John McCain
In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. -- Pico Iyer
When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value. -- Orrin Woodward
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others? -- Martin Luther King Jr.
I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do. -- Mason Cooley
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. -- Margaret Sanger
Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' -- Robert M. Hutchins
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. -- Brandi Carlile
The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right. -- David S. Broder
Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do. -- Ian Bogost
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. -- Confucius
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems. -- Peter Thiel
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. -- Leonard Cohen
I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis. -- Widad Akrawi
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. -- Tom Peters
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God... -- Pope John Paul II
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. -- Christopher Hitchens
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. -- Seth Godin
The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming. -- Noam Chomsky
Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results. -- Ralph Marston
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. -- Khaled Hosseini
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. -- Steve McCurry
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. -- Karl Barth
Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life. -- Debasish Mridha
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control -- Martin Heidegger
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground. -- Claudio Hummes
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. -- Stephen Covey
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent. -- Denis Waitley
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates. -- Gaston Bachelard
Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace! -- Pope Francis
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart. -- Siri Hustvedt
If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection. -- Amit Kalantri
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. -- Cassandra Clare
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response -- Nicholas Stern
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. -- Tim Kaine
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. -- Ira Glass
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. -- Wole Soyinka
...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity. -- Tom McClintock
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. -- J. B. Pritzker
The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. -- Havelock Ellis
Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity. -- T.L. Osborn
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war. -- African Spir
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask. -- Richard L. Evans
I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." -- Maria Canals Barrera
Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent. -- Nido R Qubein
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. -- Kenneth Tynan
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery. -- Adriana Trigiani
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. -- D. H. Lawrence
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time? -- John Updike
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing. -- Angela Carter
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? -- Mark Poster
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women. -- Zainab Salbi
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. -- R. C. Sherriff
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy. -- James Lovelock
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. -- Margaret Sanger
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For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need. -- Chris Toumazou
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. -- Paul the Apostle
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. -- Judi Dench
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. -- Rosemary Mahoney

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