Urgency Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Dave Ramsey

  Passion, Order, Looks

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Kyoto, Global Warming, Process

  Brian Mulroney (2011). “Memoirs”, p.1308, Emblem Editions

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• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  Mandy Moore

  Country, Reality, Healthy

  "Fighting Malaria With Nets" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Cities, Balance, Needs

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• My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, America, People

  "Howard Schultz: 'We Can't Wait for Washington' and CEOs Need to Show Confidence in the Economy" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2011.

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• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Wish, Feels

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• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  Eliot Spitzer

  People, Desire, Challenging The Status Quo

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• It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

  David Sedaris

  Crazy, And Love, Looks

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  George Carey

  Thinking, September 11, Spurs

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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Struggle, Procrastination

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.

  Carly Fiorina

  Needs, Ineptitude, Administration

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.

  Arthur Wallis

  Men, Giving, Heaven

  Arthur Wallis (2011). “God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting”, p.55, CLC Publications

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• Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Creative, Challenges, Schedules

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Teacher, Thinking, Psychics

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

  Babatunde Fashola

  Police, Recommendations, Screening

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• The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

  Adam Gopnik

  Silly, Simple, Giving

  "Under one roof" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Character, Soul

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and understand the urgency of issues. And to that extent, I think it is important how issues are talked about.

  Maya Harris

  Thinking, Opportunity, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

  Richard Ford

  Order, Insanity, Style

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• Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

  Joseph Curiale

  Moving, Pace, World

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• The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Kitsch, Natural

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.

  Steve McNair

  Real, Winning, Opportunity

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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Procrastination, Thinking, Allowing

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• The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.

  David Livermore

  Technology, Time Zones, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

  Garth Greenwell

  Real, Book, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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