Urgent Quotes - Page 14

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

  John McCain

  Thinking, Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Issues, Spheres, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Needs, Speak, Lost

  "The Ecstasy of Communication" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Bernard and Caroline Schutze, New York:Semiotext(e), (p. 30), 1987.

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• We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

  Evgeny Morozov

  People, Needs, Answers

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Crazy, Reading

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, People, Decision

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• I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Missing

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• In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"

  David Cross

  Funny, Beautiful, New York

  "Shut Up You Fucking Baby!". Live comedy album, November 5, 2002.

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• Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Communication, Ambition

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement." Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.

  King Hussein I

  Agreement, Goal, People

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• The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

  Angela Carter

  Iron, Sheets, Deadline

  "The stories of our lives" by Carmen Callil, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

  Malcolm Fraser

  People, Support, Needs

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• Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

  Henry Taylor

  Betrayal, Men, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131

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• An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Annoyed, Needs, World

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• It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

  Mary Midgley

  Trying, World, Fixed

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Important

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• If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Essentials, Might

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Charles Hummel

  Fire, Important, Patterns

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• Always look for forced urgent selling.

  Seth Klarman

  Looks, Selling

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Powerful, Prayer

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• [T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

  Alain de Botton

  Assessment, Differences, Way

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

  Robert M. Hutchins

  People, Important

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