Top 392 Urgency Quotes & Sayings

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

Urgency creates decision making.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Ask with urgency and passion.

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

A sense of urgency is motivating.

The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She was my number one fan and she always said I'd love to see you go into the Hall of Fame. That was the only urgency that I ever had that I wish if I was going to go into the Hall of Fame that certainly it would've happen when she was around, but it didn't and now that she's passed.

All good dramas are rife with conflicts, and the conflicts have to be resolved. What I think is so great about a show that takes place in a hospital is that you have so many different people with different needs. Sometimes all those can be in conflict. The drama of Heartland also comes from the group of people waiting, and they are sometimes agonizingly waiting for a new organ for their body in order to survive. So the show is so much about survival, which creates a sense of urgency to get the organs. I think that sense of urgency is probably the most prominent dramatic quality to the show.

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

I love the energy and urgency of working in news.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.

Urgency is insecurity.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

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

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going to be enough for me. I wanted to extend this conversation into something I call urgency. There is urgency with people in crisis. Some communities - often the black community - just live in this urgency.

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.