Urgent Quotes - Page 9

• The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your
  agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will
  be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important
  thing probably isn't even on your agenda.

  Seth Godin

  Important, Agendas, Today

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• Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

  Pope Francis

  People, Hunger And Thirst, Persons

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• 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

  Change, Powerful, Our World

  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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• You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, May, Pay

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 06, 2015

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• I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Evil, History, Generations

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• I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

  Ann Voskamp

  Self, Joy, Anxiety

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

  Confucius

  What Matters, Important, Busy

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• The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

  John F. Kennedy

  Mass Destruction, America, Long

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Past, Men, Space

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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

  Edward de Bono

  Important, Precedence

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Future Positive”, p.196, Random House

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• Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

  Nido R Qubein

  Goal, Perspective, Important

  Nido R. Qubein (1983). “Nido Qubein's Professional selling techniques”

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• Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Running, People, Risk

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Warren from Jan 12, 2015

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• Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Home, Love Is, Men

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• I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Promise, Needs

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• Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Parent, Anomalies

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• Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Needs, Poor

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• In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Sitting Still, Age

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• In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Sitting Still, Age, Movement

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Jobs, Real, Knowing

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• Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Emotional, Practice

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• 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.

  Richard L. Evans

  Children, Communication, Opportunity

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• There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Challenges, Needs, Generations

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• From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Want

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