Urgent Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Next Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.20, New World Library

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• The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Biblical, People, Tasks

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• Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.

  Emmet Fox

  Brother, Needs, Helping

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• Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.

  T.L. Osborn

  Humanity, Needs, Spirit

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• As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Retirement, Children, War

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• So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

  Mark Poster

  Relation, Late, Aesthetics

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• Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

  Jimmy Carter

  Building, Relation, Constructive

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• Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thinking, Ugly, Life Is

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• The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.

  Pope Paul VI

  Order, People, Profound

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”

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• Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

  Kay Yow

  Important, Way

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• Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Country, Art, Strong

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• The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Safety, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.732, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Class, Feminist

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• The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

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• Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Mistake, Army

  "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

  Jules Henry

  Way, Study, Problem

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

  Alma Gluck

  Advice, Want, Students

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• The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Bridges, Soul

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• I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing

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• I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Independent, Self, America

  "A War Tat is Finishe". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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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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• To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

  David Galula

  Military, Boys, Nurse

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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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