Urgent Quotes

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Ralph Marston

Effort, Patient, Results

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The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Dennis Gabor

Science, Technology, Yesterday

1970 Innovations.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

Philosophy, Government, People

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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Zora Neale Hurston

Thinking, Race, Minorities

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.171, Feminist Press at CUNY

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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

Jack Herer

Survival, Hemp, Needs

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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

Night, Light, Lamps

George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

Funny, Peace, Military

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen

Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Important

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Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

Tim Jackson

Challenges, Our Society, Limits

Tim Jackson (2011). “Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet”, p.16, Routledge

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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Mother Teresa

Unique, 7 Habits, Contribution

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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

Motivational, Good Life, Greatness

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 16, 2017

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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

Seth Godin

Doors, World, Way

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Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.

Ted Trueblood

Running, Opportunity, Vacation

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If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.

Frederic Bastiat

Mean, People, Desire

"Justice and Fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

Bo Lozoff

Kindness, War, Adversity

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To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Christopher Hitchens

Needs, Faults, Materialism

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

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I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Sergio De La Pava

Tables, Boxes, Obvious

Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

Tim LaHaye

Christian, Giving, Age

Tim F. LaHaye, Thomas Ice (2002). “Charting the End Times Prophecy Study Guide”, p.17, Harvest House Publishers

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Never let something important become urgent

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Important

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

John Berger

Art, People, Theatre

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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Miguel de Cervantes

Deeds, Prompts

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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