Sense Of Urgency Quotes:

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

- Les Brown

source: Les Brown (1998). “It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Live Life, Minutes, Sense Of Urgency, Urgency

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Optimistic, Vigilant, Sense Of Urgency, Urgency

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

- Cleve Jones

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Sense Of Urgency, Urgency

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: President, Doe, Sense Of Urgency

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

- Eric Thomas

topic: Thinking, Sense Of Urgency, Urgency

We are now faced with the fact 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. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Motivational, Too Late, Today, Life Unfolding, Dejected

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: People, Growth, Problem, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Moving, Ideas, One Thing, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Motivational, Good Life, Greatness, Urgent, Urgency

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

topic: Real, Play, People, Sense Of Urgency

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving, Achieving Your Goals, Urgency

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

topic: Sadness, Answers, Noise, Giftedness, Sense Of Urgency

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

- Jeffrey R. Immelt

topic: People, Listening, Important, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Littles, Little Things, Bigs, Sense Of Urgency

When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

- Jake Ellenberger

topic: Mma, Littles, Threat, Sense Of Urgency

America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

- Charles M. Vest

topic: Children, Math, Science, Task At Hand, Sense Of Urgency

Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Lying, Responsibility, Privilege, Privilege And Responsibility, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Communication, Skills, Ideas, Clear Communication, Communication Skills

If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.

- Rick Jarow

topic: Flow, Vitality, Cooperation, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Creativity, Bones, Born, Sense Of Urgency

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

- Michael Arad

topic: Views, Long, Littles, Sense Of Urgency

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

- Marc Bolan

topic: People, Living My Life, I Live My Life, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Real, Winning, Opportunity, Sense Of Urgency

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

- Frank McCourt

topic: Age, Graves, Staring, Sense Of Urgency

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

- Robert Pattinson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Waste, Wasting Time, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

- G-Eazy

source: Source: bestfan.com

topic: Forever, Rooms, Dorms, Dorm Rooms, Sense Of Urgency

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

- Avi Lewis

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: People, Fossils, Fuel, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Thinking, Wrath, Hands, Baudelaire, Moralizing

To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.

- Jacob Needleman

topic: Mean, Thinking, Waiting, Sense Of Urgency

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

- Sufjan Stevens

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

topic: Understanding, Body, Behavior, Good Behavior, Sense Of Urgency

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

- Cornel West

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Pain, People, Giving, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

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

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

topic: Children, Party, Thinking, Sense Of Urgency

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

- Jacob Lew

topic: Thinking, Issues, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

topic: Real, Grateful, Years, Sense Of Urgency

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

- Michael Foley

source: Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

topic: Multitasking, Management, Excitement, Multi Tasking, Crisis Management

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

- George Clooney

topic: Family, Children, Believe, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.

- Marco Mendoza

topic: Real, Guy, Band, Favorite Bands, Sense Of Urgency

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

- George Jackson

topic: Giving, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

- Jim Courier

source: Source: www.powersharesseries.com

topic: Team, Play, Tennis, Sense Of Urgency

Students will want to address the issues that they have a passion for, but I think that the challenge to this generation is the challenge of the climate crisis. Young people bring more enthusiasm, knowledge and sense of urgency on that issue. This is as planet they will inherit, they have a responsibility for it as well, and part of that responsibility is to urge people in power to make the right decisions about how we go forward.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: Source: blog.sfgate.com

topic: Responsibility, Passion, Thinking, Make The Right Decision, Sense Of Urgency

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Source: www.wildriverreview.co

topic: Thinking, Bird, Decision, Benign, Urgency

We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.

- Mamoru Hosoda

topic: Fall, Thinking, Japan, Days Gone By, Birth Rate

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

- Karl Malone

topic: Thinking, Games, Long, Urgency, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Teacher, Thinking, Psychics, Sense Of Urgency

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

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

topic: Country, Reality, Healthy, Malaria, Dose Of Reality

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

source: "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.

topic: Thinking, America, People, Sense Of Urgency

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

- Richard Lloyd

topic: Guitar, Style, Desperation, Guitar Playing, Sense Of Urgency

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

topic: Writing, Editing, Trying, Rereading, Revising

We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

- Saeb Erekat

source: Interview With Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

topic: Army, Air, People, Arafat, Elected Leaders