Urgency Quotes - Page 6

• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.

  Lorin Stein

  Editors, Voice, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Time, Delay, Divinity

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• 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.

  Laura Mullen

  Song, Effort, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

  John Grierson

  People, Political, Matter

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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• The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization, which go back to Vatican II and especially to St. John Paul II, can come together. Pope Francis' vision is to bring together the reality of a New Pentecost with the urgency of a New Evangelization.

  Ralph Martin

  Reality, Vision, Together

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You are a powerhouse of creativity; you were born magnificently expressive, available and aware. Before you had the words for it, you had an intrinsic sense of urgency because you knew down in your bones that the stakes are high.

  Larry Silverberg

  Creativity, Bones, Stakes

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

  George W. Bush

  Unique, Weapons, Regimes

  Speech on Iraq Resolution, The Rose Garden, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 2, 2002.

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• I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.

  Christian Wiman

  Country, Thinking, Missing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Book, Marketing

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• 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.

  Deanna Petherbridge

  Drawing, Done, Gone

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• When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, Bothered, Senate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have to believe in who you are and what difference you can make. You have to care about the urgency and the difference it will make to your community, and you have to, again, have confidence in the contribution that you can make. You believe, you care, you have confidence in the difference that you can make. And that's not to be egotistical, it's just to be confident.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Differences, Community

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'". edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

  Rick Larsen

  Home, Commitment, Years

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Creativity, People, Poverty

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Barack Obama

  Action, Daily Life, Feels

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• 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.

  Edith Stein

  Waiting, Heaven, Energy

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Fire

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  What Matters, Race, Sick

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humanity, Church, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Way

  "Why James Taylor is still ‘endlessly interested’ in making music". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jun 30, 2015.

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• The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

  Alan Hirsch

  Spiritual, Culture, Complacency

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.42, Baker Books

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