Top 392 Urgency Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
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.
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.
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.
I think that college football is still a sport where fans really feel urgency every week.
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.
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
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.
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.
It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.
Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.
Congress is full of people who get reelected and reelected. How can you have urgency when there are all of those safe seats?
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.
Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!
While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.
Any candidate should put forward a vision and plans that really show how we can move with urgency.
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.
As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.
Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.
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.
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon.
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.
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.
Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.
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.
Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.
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.
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we must shift away from fossil fuels.
I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.
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.
Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.
I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
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.
When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.
Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.
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.
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."
What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.
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.
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.
I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.
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.
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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.
