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• When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

  Tony Palermo

  Rocks, Needs, Roaches

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• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Waiting, Choices

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• I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

  Avi Lewis

  Thinking, Doors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Editing, Trying

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• 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

  Sadness, Poetry, Answers

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• When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution all become more critical. Sometimes you get away with doing things not quite right against lesser competition, but when you play against real good people that's when it shows up.

  Nick Saban

  Real, Play, People

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• It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the result of routine or an ordinary coming together. Life should begin in a cataclysm of heat and fury bathed in the sweat of passion and urgency.

  Maggie Osborne

  Passion, Night, Sweat

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Boys, Night, Class

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

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• The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

  Lynn Margulis

  Years, Differences, People

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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

  Avi Lewis

  People, Fossils, Fuel

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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• 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

  Mind, Monsters, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• 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

  Addiction, Comfort, Wealth

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.335, David C Cook

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• 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

  Music, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• 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

  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 28, 2011

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• We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Sacrifice, Democracy

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• 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

  Eugenics, Government, Views

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• I'm a great believer in the character of the 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

  Sports, Baseball, Character

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• 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

  Motivational, Leadership, Communication

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• All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

  Roger Staubach

  Success, Sports, Stress

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• A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.

  Tony Robbins

  Self Esteem, Believe, Important

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• 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

  Kissing, Mouths, Ownership

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.81, Dell

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• Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

  Ian Bogost

  Moving, Thinking, Impact

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