Top 572 Urgent Quotes & Sayings

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

It's urgent that companies tell their own stories on digital platforms.

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Never let something important become urgent

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

The urgent can drown out the important.

The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.

Always look for forced urgent selling.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it will never happen; you will die before it. Put meditation on your laundry list as the most important, urgent... number one. But meditation in your life is just at the very end of your laundry list - and the laundry list goes on becoming bigger and bigger. And before you finish your laundry list, you are finished, so the time for meditation never comes.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

the urgent crowds out the essential.

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